title: Anomalous connection of the right pulmonary vein to the coronary sinus in a young infant.
abstract: Partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection (PAPVC) is a rare congenital heart disease. Among previous cases, anomalous connection of the right pulmonary vein (RPV) to the coronary sinus (CS) was seldom reported. Here, we report an 8-month-old girl, initially presenting with congestive heart failure, who had this rare anomaly with moderate-sized secundum atrial septal defect (ASD). After confirmation by multi-detector row computed tomography (MDCT) and cardiac catheterization, the infant underwent a successful surgical repair. To our knowledge, this is the first reported infant with this kind of rare anomaly.
authors.affiliation: Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; Department of Pediatrics, Chang Bing Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Chi-Lin
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: I-Chen
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.affiliation: Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Ming-Chih
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Sheng-Ling
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Jan
authors.affiliation: Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: yunchingfu@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Yun-Ching
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Fu
mesh_terms: D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D054326:Coronary Sinus / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
keywords: MDCT; infants; partially anomalous pulmonary venous connection