Rare Case of Unilateral Hypoplasia of Lung with Associated
Ventricular Mass in an Adult
OD05-OD07
Correspondence
Dr. Lavina Vishnu Mirchandani,
Shyam Kutir CHS, Flat # 302, 13TH Road, TPS III, Plot 629, Khar (west), Mumbai- 400052, Maharashtra, India.
E-mail: drlavinamir@gmail.com
Hypoplasia of the lung is a rare congenital condition which can be: a) primary i.e. no apparent cause is found; or b) secondary i.e. associated with other congenital anomalies that are implicated in its pathogenesis. These anomalies may involve the diaphragm, cardiovascular, central nervous, urogenital and musculoskeletal system. Patients usually present in neonatal, infancy or childhood period and very rarely in adulthood. Our patient was an adult having a unilateral hypoplastic lung associated with a ventricular mass and to our knowledge this rare combination has never been reported in the English literature; though there are reports of prenatal or newborns with hypoplastic lung and rhabdomyoma of ventricle who did not survive.