Intraoperative diagnosis of retroaortic left innominate vein in a patient with congenital heart disease

Meletios Kanakis; Dimitrios Bobos; George Samanidis; Nikolaos Papakonstantinou; Theophili Kousi; Achilleas Lioulias; Nicholas Giannopoulos

doi:10.1002/ccr3.4446

Intraoperative diagnosis of retroaortic left innominate vein in a patient with congenital heart disease

Clin Case Rep. 2021 Jul 19;9(7):e04446. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.4446. eCollection 2021 Jul.

Authors

Meletios Kanakis¹, Dimitrios Bobos¹, George Samanidis¹, Nikolaos Papakonstantinou¹, Theophili Kousi², Achilleas Lioulias¹, Nicholas Giannopoulos¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center Athens Greece.
² Department of Anesthesiology Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center Athens Greece.

Abstract

Diagnosis of retroaortic left innominate vein is usually made by echocardiography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging, but in several cases, diagnosis is made in the theater.

Keywords: diagnosis; retroaortic left innominate vein; tetralogy of Fallot.