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Left Superior Vena Cava Draining into the Left Atrium, Associated with Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection: Surgical Correction
Author(s) -
Quarti Andrea,
Di Eusanio Marco,
Pierri Michele Danilo,
Di Eusanio Giuseppe
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2005.200471.x
Subject(s) - medicine , left atrium , heart atrium , vena cava , superior vena cava , persistent left superior vena cava , right atrium , cardiology , atrial fibrillation , coronary sinus
A persistent left superior vena cava draining into the left atrium may produce a symptomatic right‐to‐left shunt. Although intra‐atrial rerouting techniques, in patients with no connecting vein, have proved to be reliable and successful, in many cases the extracardiac repair is preferable. We report a case of a 5‐month‐old patient with a not connected left superior vena cava draining into the left atrium, associated with atrial septal defect and partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection. The correction has been achieved by rerouting the pulmonary venous return into the left atrium and by transposition of the left vena cava on the right appendage.