Pulmonary hypertension secondary to partial pulmonary venous obstruction in a child with Cantu syndrome

Pediatr Pulmonol. 2010 Jul;45(7):727-9. doi: 10.1002/ppul.21215.

Abstract

We report on an African-American male with Cantu syndrome who required a pericardial window for a significant pericardial effusion in infancy and was subsequently found to have partial pulmonary venous obstruction (PVO) leading to pulmonary hypertension. Measurement of bilateral pulmonary capillary wedge pressures is important to uncover partial PVO.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
  • Cardiomegaly / complications
  • Cardiomegaly / diagnostic imaging
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Genetic Diseases, X-Linked / complications
  • Genetic Diseases, X-Linked / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / diagnostic imaging
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / etiology*
  • Hypertrichosis / complications
  • Hypertrichosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Male
  • Osteochondrodysplasias / complications
  • Osteochondrodysplasias / diagnostic imaging
  • Pericardial Effusion / diagnostic imaging
  • Pericarditis / drug therapy
  • Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease / complications*
  • Pulmonary Wedge Pressure
  • Radiography
  • Syndrome

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents

Supplementary concepts

  • Cantu syndrome