Total anomalous pulmonary venous return in an adult.
A 47-year-old man with total anomalous pulmonary venous return met all the conditions necessary for long survival. In particular, his pulmonary vascular resistance was almost normal because of right ventricular outflow tract obstruction. Surgical treatment was performed with a good result.
Hisagi
Motoyuki
M
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan. mhisagi-tky@umin.ac.jp
Higuchi
Kazuhiko
K
Koseni
Kenzi
K
Inaba
Hirotaka
H
D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000002:abnormalities*; D014655:Vascular Resistance / Q000502:physiology; D014694:Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*