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.
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, USA.
D B
DB
McElhinney
V V
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Halbach
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NH
Silverman
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CF
Dowd
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Hanley
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