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- These symptoms include: Difficulty breathing while feeding. Pale or grayish skin (cyanosis). Rapid breathing. Swelling (edema) in their legs, belly or around their eyes. Other times, babies may grow into adulthood without showing any symptoms. Most adults with scimitar syndrome remain asymptomatic (show no symptoms).
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Apr 11, 2022 · What are the symptoms of scimitar syndrome? Sometimes, babies show scimitar syndrome symptoms immediately after birth. These symptoms include: Difficulty breathing while feeding. Pale or grayish skin (cyanosis). Rapid breathing. Swelling in their legs, belly or around their eyes.
Dec 19, 2022 · Scimitar syndrome is a rare, congenital (present at birth) heart defect that occurs in 1 to 3 out of every 100,000 live births. Babies with scimitar syndrome have an underdeveloped right lung and an underdeveloped right pulmonary artery.
- Corey Whelan
Jun 26, 2023 · Scimitar syndrome is primarily an imaging diagnosis and gives a characteristic abnormal chest X-ray that shows the shadow of the descending pulmonary vein along the right cardiac border, a hypoplastic lung, as well as dextroposition of the heart.
- Josue Diaz-Frias, Jason Widrich
- 2023/06/26
Aug 24, 2022 · Symptoms of Scimitar syndrome vary from different individuals, commonly including cyanosis, respiratory distress, tachypnea, recurrent pneumonia, and heart failure. According to the onset age of symptoms, Scimitar symptom has been divided into infantile form (during infancy) and adult form ( 1 ).
- 10.3389/fcvm.2022.973796
- 2022
- Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022; 9: 973796.
Patients with Scimitar Syndrome can experience a variety of symptoms, including difficulty breathing, respiratory infections, and fatigue. The diagnosis can be made with imaging studies, such as a chest X-ray, echocardiogram or CT scan.
What is Scimitar Syndrome? Scimitar Syndrome, also known as hypogenic lung syndrome or pulmonary venolobar syndrome, is a rare congenital abnormality affecting 1 – 3 in 100,000 babies born. It affects more females than males.
Jun 26, 2023 · Scimitar syndrome is primarily an imaging diagnosis and gives a characteristic abnormal chest X-ray that shows the shadow of the descending pulmonary vein along the right cardiac border, a hypoplastic lung, as well as dextroposition of the heart.
