Anomalous connection of inferior vena cava to the left atrium.
A 3-year-old symptomatic girl was diagnosed, using contrast echocardiography, as having an anomalous connection of inferior vena cava to the left atrium. Contrast material was injected in a peripheral foot vein, the diagnosis was confirmed by color Doppler flow echocardiography and cardiac catheterization. The defect was corrected and the patient is asymptomatic at this time.
Children's Hospital, Vizcaya, Spain.
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Cabrera
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Arriola
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Llorente
D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004452:Echocardiography; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000002:abnormalities*