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.
Cabrera
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Children's Hospital, Vizcaya, Spain.
Arriola
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Llorente
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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*