EC Cardiology

Although echocardiography remains the primary imaging tool when suspecting a congenital cardiac anomaly, it comes short in terms of accurately specifying the type of abnormality in the domain of cardiovascular malformations in which a well-studied dimensional topography is the basis of a successful surgical approach assuming the latter is possible. Ultrasound limitation is principally due to a limited acoustic window and the inexperience of imagers. In this article, we report a unique combination of 2 malformations discovered in the same patient group in the so-called ‘Berry syndrome’, its US and CT feature with contemporary surgical methods as well as the outcome of the patient in hand.

Keywords: Berry Syndrome; Interrupted Aortic Arch; Aortopulmonary Window; CT Angiography; 3D Reconstruction

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