Infundibular Pulmonary Stenosis Differential Diagnoses

  • Author: Poothirikovil Venugopalan, MBBS, MD, FRCP(Glasg), FRCPCH; Chief Editor: Stuart Berger, MD   more...
 
Updated: Jun 23, 2010
 
 

Differential Diagnoses

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Poothirikovil Venugopalan, MBBS, MD, FRCP(Glasg), FRCPCH,  Consulting Staff, Department of Child Health, University Hospital of North Tees and Hartlepool, UK

Poothirikovil Venugopalan, MBBS, MD, FRCP(Glasg), FRCPCH, is a member of the following medical societies: British Cardiac Society, Paediatrician with Cardiology Expertise Special Interest Group, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

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Specialty Editor Board

Jeffrey Allen Towbin, MD, MSc, FAAP, FACC, FAHA  Professor, Departments of Pediatrics (Cardiology), Cardiovascular Sciences, and Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine; Chief of Pediatric Cardiology, Foundation Chair in Pediatric Cardiac Research, Texas Children's Hospital

Jeffrey Allen Towbin, MD, MSc, FAAP, FACC, FAHA is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Pediatrics, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American College of Cardiology, American College of Sports Medicine, American Heart Association, American Medical Association, American Society of Human Genetics, Cardiac Electrophysiology Society, New York Academy of Sciences, Society for Pediatric Research, Texas Medical Association, and Texas Pediatric Society

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Mary L Windle, PharmD  Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape Drug Reference

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Hugh D Allen, MD  Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology and Department of Internal Medicine, Ohio State University College of Medicine

Hugh D Allen, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, American Pediatric Society, American Society of Echocardiography, Society for Pediatric Research, Society of Pediatric Echocardiography, and Western Society for Pediatric Research

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Gilbert Z Herzberg, MD  Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Cardiology, New York Medical College; Consulting Staff, Department of Pediatrics, Sound Shore Medical Center

Gilbert Z Herzberg, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Pediatrics

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Chief Editor

Stuart Berger, MD  Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Medical College of Wisconsin; Chief of Pediatric Cardiology, Medical Director of Pediatric Heart Transplant Program, Medical Director of The Heart Center, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin

Stuart Berger, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Cardiology, American College of Chest Physicians, American Heart Association, and Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions

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Chest radiograph of a 2-year-old boy with severe pulmonary stenosis (infundibular). Note the mild cardiomegaly, reduced pulmonary vascularity, and absence of poststenotic dilatation of pulmonary artery.
 
 
 
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