Surgical management of persistent left superior vena cava associated with an absent right superior vena cava.
A case of persistent left with absent right superior vena cava accompanied with atrial septal defect in a six-year-old girl is presented. This rare venous malformation was diagnosed incidentally during surgery when the pericardium was incised. An L-shape cannula was directly inserted into the left superior vena cava for cardiopulmonary bypass. The atrial septal defect was closed with a fresh autologous pericardial patch. The surgical management of this rare anomaly is the subject of this review.
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei, China.
Zhi-Qiang
ZQ
Luo
Ke-Ye
KY
Liu
Zhe
Z
Han
Cheng
C
Zhou
Fu-Lin
FL
Liu
Xiao-Dong
XD
Zhou
D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000601:surgery*; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D056346:Sternotomy; D054079:Vascular Malformations / Q000601:surgery*; D014683:Vena Cava, Superior / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery