PLAIN RADIOGRAPHIC DIAGNOSIS OF CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

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7b-1. Hypoplastic pulmonary artery with hypoplastic lung.

A. PA chest film demonstrates dexrtroversion with mediastinal shift to the right. There is increased aeration of the left lung in addition to some increase in vascularity with decreased vascularity of the right lung. There is an area of increased aeration of the right lower lobe representing compensatory emphysema secondary to hypoplasia of the right upper lobe.