Pulmonary Venous Index as Additional Diagnostic Criteria for Fontan Palliation

Figure 1

Chest MSCT AG, an example of the right inferior pulmonary vein (RIPV), the cross-sectional area at the orifice calculating. (a) 3D VRT image demonstrating the anatomy of the RIPV junction with the left atrium (red circle) at the site of the section calculated; (b) axial image at the IPVs level, the oblique-coronal plane (blue line) and the oblique-sagittal plane (yellow line) are displayed parallel to the orifice of the RIPV; (c) the plane of the RIPV orifice with a stroke around the perimeter of the vessel.

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