Bilateral Pulmonary Sequestration in a Preterm Infant

A female infant was born at gestational age of 30 weeks by cesarean delivery with a birth weight of 1250 g. Postnatal echocardiography showed multiple, small muscular ventricular septal defects as well as mild tubular aortic coarctation while arterial duct was still patent (patent ductus arteriosus [PDA]). During Doppler evaluation of the celiac trunk to examine hemodynamic relevance of the PDA, we found an additional vessel originating from the abdominal aorta just above the celiac trunk. This artery was feeding a bilateral, echogenic mass (Figure 1; available at www.jpeds.com).

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