title: Pulmonary resection of lung cancer in a patient with partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection.
abstract: We report a case of a 64-year-old man in whom a partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection (PAPVC) was found before right lower lobectomy for lung cancer. In addition to lung cancer, there was a right superior pulmonary vein that drained into the superior vena cava (SVC). There was a concern of right ventricular heart failure resulting from increased left-to-right shunt flow after lobectomy. Therefore cardiac catheterization was performed to calculate the pulmonary-to-systemic flow rate in the presence of blocked blood flow to the lower lobe pulmonary artery. As a result, we successfully performed lobectomy without correcting the PAPVC.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery and Pathology, Mitsui Memorial Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. m.mikubo1220@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Masashi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mikubo
authors.forename: Shingo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: Tatsuhiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hoshino
authors.forename: Toshiya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yokota
authors.forename: Akiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fujii
authors.forename: Masaya
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mori
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000002:abnormalities*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed