Ginormous Coronary Sinus with Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava
Author(s) -
Htoo Kyaw,
Atif Z. Shaikh,
Misra Deepika
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of heart and circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2470-105X
DOI - 10.19104/jhc.2016.111
Subject(s) - persistent left superior vena cava , coronary sinus , medicine , sinus (botany) , cardiology , biology , botany , genus
An echocardiogram is the most common diagnostic imaging done in chest pain evaluation workup. Persistent left superior vena cava is a rare thoracic congenital anomaly but commonly reported one in the literature. Dilated coronary sinus on echocardiogram is a signal to think of persistent left superior vena cava which can be presented with atypical chest pain and palpitation but is often asymptomatic. As a catheter from left subclavian approach can incidentally advance to the right side of the heart, early awareness of PLSVC is crucial to prevent unwanted procedure related complications.
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