Unilateral total anomalous pulmonary venous connection from a unilateral lung is extremely rare. A 6-year-old patient with anomalous pulmonary venous connection from the entire left lung to the left innominate vein, with an intact atrial septum, diagnosed by two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography is reported. The combination of two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography is very useful n...

  Abstract   Objective: To evaluate the surgical treatment of total anomalous pulmonary venous   connection (TAPVC) and determination of predictors for postoperative death.   Methods: Between 1995 and 2005, 80 patients aged from 1 month to 12 years underwent surgical repair for supracardiac (39), cardiac (34), infracardiac (3) or mixed (4) type of TAPVC. Systemic pulmonary hypertension (PH) in ...

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studyof 4 cases of uncoplicated total anomalous pulmlonalry venous drainage, in connection with the systemic circuit is in the region of the porta hepatis, revealed similar clinical and radiologic findings, so that in the fourth case the diagnosis was suspected and confirmed by angiocardiographic study. Mainly due to the obstruction of pulmonary venous outflow, this form of total anomalous pulm...