Unusual venacaval anomalies in a patient with atrial septal defect

Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann. 2008 Dec;16(6):492-4. doi: 10.1177/021849230801600614.

Abstract

An unusual systemic venous drainage pattern was found in a 30-year-old man with ostium secundum atrial septal defect and pulmonary stenosis. He had the rare association of absent right superior vena cava, persistent left superior vena cava draining into the coronary sinus, and a left-sided inferior vena cava draining into a left superior vena cava through the hemiazygous vein.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abnormalities, Multiple / diagnosis*
  • Adult
  • Cardiac Surgical Procedures
  • Cardiopulmonary Bypass
  • Electrocardiography
  • Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / complications*
  • Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Phlebography
  • Pulmonary Valve Stenosis / complications*
  • Pulmonary Valve Stenosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Vascular Malformations / complications
  • Vascular Malformations / diagnosis*
  • Vena Cava, Inferior / abnormalities*
  • Vena Cava, Inferior / diagnostic imaging
  • Vena Cava, Superior / abnormalities*
  • Vena Cava, Superior / diagnostic imaging