This report describes the identification of a partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection during routine central venous catheterization in a man with pulmonary hypertension. To our knowledge, this is the first report in the English literature to describe this occurrence during central line placement.

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...

Right atrial isomerism or left atrial isomerism is frequently diagnosed as situs ambiguous without further discrimination of the specific morbid anatomy. Thirty six cases of right atrial isomerism and seven cases of left atrial isomerism were collected from the records and pathological museum at the National Taiwan University Hospital. There was a necropsy report for 18 cases. In all patients o...

Between January 1976 and July 1983, 217 patients with atrial septal defect underwent surgical repair at Children's Hospital. Thirty with a primum atrial septal defect and 26 who underwent cardiac catheterization elsewhere before being seen were excluded from analysis. Of the 161 remaining patients, 52 (31%) underwent preoperative cardiac catheterization, 38 because the physical examination was ...

Volume-rendered images, derived from multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT), can facilitate assessment of the morphology of partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection and are thus useful in pre-operative planning to prevent surgical morbidity and assist post-operative evaluations.