Infra-cardiac totally anomalous pulmonary venous drainage

Anomalous pulmonary venous drainage.

Cases of drainage of the pulmonary veins into the right side of the heart have been well summarized by Brody (1942). He reported 38 cases of complete, and 68 cases of partial, drainage of the pulmonary veins into the right atrium or its tributaries. The purpose of this paper is to record a further case, and to summarize the cases not reported by Brody and those which have been reported during t...

Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage

The spontaneous functional closure of the interatrial communication in total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage (TAPVD) subsequent to surgical correction of the TAPVD in infants is reported. Three cases are documented with descriptions of clinical features, cardiac catheterization data, thermodilution curves, and angiography. This evidence suggests that it might be unnecessary in infants to cl...

Anomalous partial pulmonary venous drainage.

An 80-year-old man underwent a thoracoscopic right upper lobectomy for cT2N0 lung carcinoma. A partial anomalous drainage of the right superior pulmonary veins to the superior vena cava was discovered (Fig. 1). It was visible on computed tomography (CT) scan (Fig. 2a) and volume-rendering reconstruction (Fig. 2b). No other cardiac abnormality was found on echocardiography. Fig. 2. (a) The diagn...

Total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage at cardiac level. Angiocardiographic differentiation.

Infra-diaphragmatic total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage presenting with rectal bleeding.

A boy aged 1 month presented with profuse rectal bleeding. Chest x-ray film showed pulmonary oedema and at cardiac catheterisation infradiaphragmatic total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage to a dilated portal venous system was found. Ulcerated oesophageal varices were identified at necropsy after unsuccessful cardiac surgery. The late and unique presentation of this case is emphasised.