Left Superior Vena Cava: Radiologic Finding

Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava

Persistent left superior vena cava

Persistent left superior vena cava (PLSVC) is the most common congenital malformation of thoracic venous return and is present in 0.3 to 0.5% of individuals in the general population. This heart specimen was dissected from a 35-year-old male cadaver whose cause of death was determined as non-cardiac. The heart was examined and we found a PLSVC draining into the coronary sinus. The right superio...

Persistent left superior vena cava: an incidental finding.

Persistent left superior vena cava (PLSVC) is an uncommon anomaly, estimated to be present in about 0.3-0.5% of the population. It results from an embryological defect involving failure of the left cardinal vein to degenerate. It is present along with a right-sided superior vena cava in 82.2% of the cases reported. The condition most commonly occurs along with other cardiovascular malformations...

Left superior vena cava: revisited.

The persistence of a left-sided superior vena cava is the most common variant of systemic venous drainage. Increased utility of cardiac imaging, in particular cross-sectional techniques such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance (MR), will result in increased detection of the anomaly and its variants. Whilst in the typical form it is often haemodynamically insignificant, its discovery m...

Resynchronization in the left superior vena cava

Background: Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava (PLSVC) is a rare congenital anomaly which is typically asymptomatic and discovered incidentally during device implantation. Methods: In this case, we present challenges and techniques of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) in a patient with PLSVC. Results: After evaluating the exact anatomy of PLSVC and Coronary Sinus (CS), we chose the approp...