[Successful surgical treatment of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (supracardiac Ib type) showing an unusual shape of the pulmonary veins in an infant].
An experience of a 9-month-old infant with Darling's type Ib of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection is presented. In this case, the left pulmonary vein traveled horizontally behind the atrium, entered the right thoracic cavity and drained into the SVC together with the right lower, middle and upper pulmonary veins. The patient was treated with repair using Gersony-Malm's method and plasty of SVC because of the stenosis of the common pulmonary vein's entrance to the SVC. Her postoperative course was uneventful, and the result was satisfactory. To our knowledge, our case is the first successful correction not associated with other complex cardiac anomalies in the world.
Fujimatsu
T
T
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Children's Hospital Tokyo.
Tsunemoto
M
M
Kazuma
H
H
Ohta
Y
Y
Koyama
T
T
Neya
K
K
Ishizawa
A
A
Koike
K
K
Akagi
M
M
Kobayashi
J
J
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D011859:Radiography; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000379:methods