title: Atresia of the common pulmonary vein.
abstract: A newborn girl with atresia of the common pulmonary vein, presented immediately after birth with severe cyanosis and acidosis. The diagnosis of totally obstructed total pulmonary venous return was made by cross-sectional echocardiography. Subsequent cardiac catheterization failed to demonstrate the site of pulmonary venous return. Necropsy showed the pulmonary veins to be connected bilaterally to an atretic common pulmonary vein. There was no obvious alternative pathway for pulmonary venous return.
authors.affiliation: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy.
authors.forename: Youcef
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sadou
authors.forename: Matteo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ciuffreda
authors.forename: Giancarlo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Crupi
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000002:abnormalities*; D011668:Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease / Q000151:congenital* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology