Successful surgical correction of infradiaphragmatic total anomalous pulmonary venous return into the inferior vena cava. A fourteen-year follow-up

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1978 Jan;75(1):68-72.

Abstract

This case report describes the long-term follow-up of a patient who, at 7 weeks of age, underwent surgical correction of infradiaphragmatic total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPVR) to the inferior vena cava. Fourteen years after operation, the patient has normal anatomy and nearly normal hemodynamics. The difference between this type of infradiaphragmatic TAPVR with posthepatic drainage is compared with the more common type which drains prehepatically.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Angiocardiography
  • Cardiac Catheterization
  • Cardiac Pacing, Artificial
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Electrocardiography
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Heart Rate
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Pulmonary Veins / abnormalities*
  • Pulmonary Veins / surgery*
  • Vena Cava, Inferior / surgery*