title: Percutaneous intracardiac baffle stenting after a scimitar vein correction.
abstract: A typical scimitar vein was surgically corrected in a female patient of 35 years old. The postoperative course was uneventful and in the first months after the functional capacity normalized. Six months after the correction, the patient developed progressive dyspnea. Kinking and distal stenosis of the intracardiac baffle which connected the scimitar vein to the left atrium were diagnosed. Balloon dilatation and stenting could normalize the blood flow through the baffle. The patient remains symptom-less up to six months after the procedure.
authors.affiliation: Congenital Cardiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium. werner.budts@uzleuven.be
authors.forename: Werner
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Budts
authors.forename: Filip
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rega
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gewillig
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010496:Pericardium / Q000637:transplantation*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D012587:Scimitar Syndrome / Q000601:surgery*; D015607:Stents; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome