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Background: Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection is a rare congenital heart disease that needs to be surgically corrected. In our study, we retrospectively evaluated the factors associated with mortality and morbidity in patients undergoing total anomalous pulmonary venous connection surgery. Patients and methods: Retrospective data were collected on 34 patients with isolated total anoma...

Anomalous pulmonary venous connections may provide channels for partial or for complete return of blood from the lungs to the right atrium. These are sometimes the only anomalies, but they also may be part of a complex of abnormalities. The isolated partial anomaly occurs in approximately 0.5 per cent of persons, but among patients with additional cardiovascular anomalies, partial abnormal pulm...

INTRODUCTION Scimitar Syndrome is a relatively rare variety of partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection in which the right pulmonary veins form an anomalous confluence which drains into the infra-diaphragmatic inferior vena cava. The X-ray chest in these patients shows the typical Scimitar Sign. CASE REPORT We are presenting a patient who was diagnosed to have Scimitar Syndrome on the ba...

BACKGROUND We sought to determine era-specific changes in the incidence of mortality and reoperation in children with total anomalous pulmonary venous connection. METHODS AND RESULTS We reviewed the records of 377 children presenting from 1946 to 2005 with total anomalous pulmonary venous connection. Multivariable parametric regression models determined the incidence and risk factors for deat...