Surgical treatment of a 56-year-old woman with an intracardiac type of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection.
Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) is a rare congenital cardiac anomaly. Death usually occurs in the first 3 months of life in about 50% of neonates with this disease, and no more than 20% of patients survive to the age of 1 year. The patient with the longest recorded survival is 49 years old. Here, we report successful surgical treatment of this disease in a 56-year-old female patient. This patient was discharged in good health about 1 month after operation, with no evidence of recurrence of heart failure at 13 months' follow-up.
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Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. fengqiang1088@yahoo.com.cn
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D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D020127:Recovery of Function; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left