severe pulmonary incompetence seen in utero is nearly always due to the \u2018absent pulmonary valve syndrome\u2019. the term is a misnomer because there is usually tissue seen in the position of the pulmonary valve both echocardiographically and anatomically. a better name would be severe pulmonary valve dysplasia. the valve leaflets are very abnormal resulting in free pulmonary regurgitation and often massive dilatation of the main and branch pulmonary arteries. there is commonly an associated ventricular septal defect most often in the outlet septum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","tags":[23],"class_list":["post-4170","x5_anomaly_database","type-x5_anomaly_database","status-publish","hentry","tag-obstetric"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.iolishoes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/x5_anomaly_database\/4170","targethints":{"allow":["get"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.iolishoes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/x5_anomaly_database"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.iolishoes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/x5_anomaly_database"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.iolishoes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/\/www.iolishoes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/x5_anomaly_database\/4170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.iolishoes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.iolishoes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}