[Agenesis of the left lung in combination with a persistent left superior vena cava and al cor triatriatum sinister in a 77 year old man].
We report the case of a 77 year old man, who was hospitalized in the final stadium of his congenital disease. Following a pneumonia in the right lung the respirator therapy was needed. Later the patient died by a chronic right heart failure.
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Innere Abteilung, St. Marien Hospitals Borken.
D000368:Aged; D003310:Cor Triatriatum / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014683:Vena Cava, Superior / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging