Left Pulmonary Artery in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Echocardiographic evaluation in patients without cardiac defects and role of Tbx1 in mice.
Gioia Mastromoro, Giulio Calcagni, Paolo Versacci, Carolina Putotto, Marcello Chinali, Caterina Lambiase, Marta Unolt, Elena Pelliccione, Silvia Anaclerio, Cinzia Caprio, Sara Cioffi, Marchesa Bilio, Anwar Baban, Fabrizio Drago, Maria Cristina Digilio, , Antonio Baldini
The paper evaluates left pulmonary artery dimensions in 22q11.2DS patients without cardiac defects and finds reduced LPA/RPA ratios, supported by Tbx1 mutant mouse studies showing similar anomalies.
PLoS ONE · Apr 1, 2019Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology