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The striking finding is the huge enlargement of the right pulmonary artery, almost aneurysmal dilatation of right pulmonary artery. This is the aortic knuckle. In VSD Eisenmenger and PDA Eisenmenger, you would not expect right atrial enlargement. Transcript of the video: Here is an X-ray chest PA view. It is not visible here.
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