Author name: Clinical and Medical Images

A two-month old male with failure to thrive and a history of a subarterial ventricular septal defect (VSD) and a secundum atrial septal defect (ASD) presented to our institution for surgical repair. His operative course was preceded by intubation for acute respiratory failure secondary to acute on chronic heart failure and multi-organism bacterial pneumonia, which […]

Aortopulmonary (AP) window can be associated with aortic arch anomalies, including interrupted aortic arch with ductal patency. The rare association of distal aortopulmonary septal defect, aortic origin of the right pulmonary artery (RPA), intact ventricular septum (IVS), patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), and interrupted or Hypo plastic aortic arch, might have been originally described by Berry

Ectopic thyroid – i.e. thyroid tissue being in locations other than the normal anterior neck region – is a rare disease with a prevalence of 1 per 100,000 to 300,000 people [1,2]. This condition results from developmental defects of thyroid gland embryogenesis passing the thyroglossal duct from the primitive foregut to the final position [2].