Congenital heart disease chest xray

Associate Editor-In-Chief: Keri Shafer, M.D. [mailto:kshafer@bidmc.harvard.edu], Atif Mohammad, M.D., Priyamvada Singh, MBBS

Radiographic fndings in congenital heart diseases -


 * Helps in differentiating between cardiac and pulmonary causes of cyanosis.


 * Large ductus arteriousus - reticulogranular pattern + increased pulmonary markings + pulmonary edema


 * Tetralogy of fallot, pulmonic stenosis, pulmonic atresia, tricuspid atresia, Ebstein's anomaly - cyanosis + decreased pulmonary vascular markings


 * Transpoaition of great arteries, truncus arteriosus, hypoplastic left heart syndrome - cyanosis + increased pulmonary vascular markings

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