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The first report of a patient with interrupted inferior vena cava, multiple post‐renal veins and azygos‐hemiazygos continuation
Author(s) -
MATSUOKA SUGURU,
ANTONIOU EMMANUEL EH,
MORI KAZUHIRO,
HAYABUCHI YASUNOBU,
KURODA YASUHIRO
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
pediatrics international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.49
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1442-200X
pISSN - 1328-8067
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-200x.1995.tb03366.x
Subject(s) - medicine , inferior vena cava , azygos vein , renal vein , omphalocele , anatomy , left renal vein , vein , magnetic resonance imaging , radiology , kidney , surgery , fetus , biology , pregnancy , genetics
The first case of a patient with interrupted inferior vena cava, four post‐renal veins and an azygoshemiazygos continuation is presented. The complicated anomalies were omphalocele and atrial septal defect. Cine‐magnetic resonance imaging and cardiac catheterization showed an anomalous retroaortic left innominate vein, azygos‐hemiazygos continuation in the prerenal portion, arch formed renal vein in the renal portion and four embryonic vessels in the post‐renal portion. Combination of these anomalies in the major venous system suggested that the inferior vena cava had failed to form and that the bilateral embryonic venous system, postcardinal and supracardinal veins persisted to be the systemic venous channels.