Cardiology · Cardiology / Congenital heart disease
Scimitar syndrome
also: congenital pulmonary venolobar syndrome; Hypogenetic lung syndrome
Anomalous right pulmonary venous drainage to the inferior vena cava with right lung hypoplasia.
- Specialty
- Cardiology
- Subspecialty
- Cardiology / Congenital heart disease
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected, slightly more; Children: yes, infant and adult forms
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- congenital pulmonary venolobar syndrome; Hypogenetic lung syndrome
Etiology & mechanism
Failure of normal right pulmonary vein connection.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (7)
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2 shared
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cyanosis
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None.
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