Infracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage: a diagnostic challenge.
Infracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage can be erroneously diagnosed as respiratory distress of several different etiologies during the neonatal period. A cross-sectional echocardiography study with Doppler color flow mapping can preoperatively determine the precise drainage site and pulmonary venous return pattern, thereby allowing cardiac surgery to be performed promptly, prior to any clinical deterioration.
Silva
Célia M C
CM
EPM, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. celiasilv@uol.com.br
Oporto
Victor M
VM
Silveira
Patrícia
P
Bertini
Ayrton
A
Kapins
Carlos Eduardo Bernini
CE
Carvalho
Antonio Carlos Camargo
AC
D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D012039:Regional Blood Flow