A 35-year-old woman with no relevant medical history presented with dyspnea on moderate exertion. Physical examination detected a mild mid-systolic murmur, and the electrocardiogram showed negative T waves in the right precordial leads. On chest radiography, the right lung was mildly hypoplastic and showed a linear opacity (Figure 1A, arrow), corresponding to a vascular structure (scimitar sign...

The "Scimitar syndrome" is a rare congenital anomaly characterized by combination of partial or complete pulmonary venous return from the right lung to the inferior vena cava either above or below the diaphragm together with hypoplasia of the right lung and sometimes systemic arterial supply to the right lung. In this case, multimodality imaging findings such as the vein draining into the infer...

Early cardiac abnormalities in obese children: importance of obesity per se versus associated cardiovascular risk factors. Delle Donne MG et al. Obesity cardiomyopathy: is it a reality? An ultrasonic tissue characterization study. Abnormal myocardial deformation properties in obese, non-hypertensive children : an ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, standard echocardiographic, and strain rate ...

A 56-day old baby girl referred for recurrent respiratory tract infections and stridor, showed a rare association of a Cor Triatriatum Sinister (CTS) and a right Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return (PAPVR), in the form of a stenosed Scimitar vein, draining the right pulmonary veins to the subdiaphragmatic inferior vena cava (IVC), on echography and angiography. The baby underwent successf...

We present the first extensive and integrative analysis of niche evolution based on climatic variables and a dated molecular phylogeny of a heterogeneous avian group of Southeast Asian scimitar babblers of the genus Pomatorhinus. The four main clades of scimitar babblers have species that co-occur in similar areas across southern Asia but some have diverged at different timeframes, with the mos...