title: Comprehensive echocardiographic diagnosis of right heart enlargement in association with partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage in three adult women.
abstract: Partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage is a rare congenital anomaly which can lead to right heart enlargement. It may present in isolation or more commonly in association with other congenital cardiac anomalies. We present three different cases of partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage in adults. The importance of identifying partial anomalous venous drainage as the cause of otherwise unexplained right heart enlargement is illustrated by these cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia. rinku.rayoo@austin.org.au
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rayoo
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: De Silva
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: F A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Ponnuthurai
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Srivastava
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Calafiore
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017380:Hypertrophy, Right Ventricular / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012587:Scimitar Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*