Congenital cardiac anomalies with vein of Galen malformations in infants.
Published reports and personal experience are reviewed relating to patients under 1 year of age diagnosed with a vein of Galen malformation and congenital heart disease. Including five patients from this institution, a total of 23 patients (12 neonates) with congenital heart disease and a vein of Galen malformation have been reported. Six of these had sinus venosus atrial septal defect and nine had aortic coarctation.
McElhinney
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DB
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, USA.
Halbach
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VV
Silverman
N H
NH
Dowd
C F
CF
Hanley
F L
FL
D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D002550:Cerebral Veins / Q000002:abnormalities*; D004452:Echocardiography; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000150:complications*; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D019736:Prostheses and Implants