Anomalous Systemic Arterial Supply to the Lung Causing Pulmonary-Artery Hypertension

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Abstract
ABERRANT arterial supply from the systemic circulation to a portion of the lung as a cause of pulmonary-artery hypertension and congestive heart failure in the newhorn infant has not heen descrihed. An infant who had cardiac failure showed immediate clinical improvement alter interruption of the abnormal blood supply, and the pulmonary hypertension disappeared.Case ReportC.C. (C.H.M.C.. 66 23 31), a nonidentical twin with a birth weight of 2778 g (6 lb, 2 oz), showed duskiness of the skin and lips within the 1st few hours, as well as moderate tachypnea. By 24 hours of age respiratory distress was present, . . .