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Isolated partial right lower lobe pulmonary venous drainage into the right atrium as a cause of pulmonary hypertension in a middle‐aged woman
Author(s) -
Ghaemian Ali,
Nabati Maryam,
Dabirian Mozhdeh,
Shokri Mojtaba
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of clinical ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.272
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1097-0096
pISSN - 0091-2751
DOI - 10.1002/jcu.22691
Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary hypertension , right atrium , shunt (medical) , cardiology , left atrium , surgery , atrial fibrillation
Partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection is a rare congenital disease characterized by drainage of one or several pulmonary veins into the systemic venous system. It is extremely rare as an isolated anomaly. We report the case of a middle‐aged woman with isolated drainage of an enormously enlarged right lower pulmonary vein into the right atrium with significant left‐to‐right shunt, severe right ventricular enlargement, and pulmonary hypertension.