title: Common atrium associated with anomalous high insertion of the inferior vena cava.
abstract: The case is reported of a 38-year-old housewife with a common atrium associated with anomalous high insertion of the inferior vena cava, absence of the coronary sinus, and drainage of a left hepatic vein into the left side of common atrium. Surgical repair was performed successfully. The procedure was closure of a nearly total atrial septal defect with a Dacron patch. Embroyologically, the development failure of the sinu-atrial fold appears to be the basic causal factor.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000790:Angiocardiography; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000150:complications; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000196:embryology; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000150:complications* / Q000196:embryology / Q000601:surgery; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications / Q000196:embryology / Q000601:surgery; D006503:Hepatic Veins / Q000002:abnormalities; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D011093:Polyethylene Terephthalates; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000196:embryology
chemical_list: D011093:Polyethylene Terephthalates