title: [Autopsy findings of 19 cases of pulmonary vein abnormalities associated with fetal cardiac anomalies].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To improve the diagnostic accuracy of fetal pulmonary venous abnormalities through the analysis of the fetal pulmonary vein anatomy.
  
  
  METHODS
  234 cases of congenital cardiac abnormalities were detected by echocardiography during pregnancy in An Zhen Hospital, Capital Medical University from May 2010 to August 2015. Autopsy was then performed. The type of fetal pulmonary venous malformation, cardiac abnormalities, systemic venous malformations, and other internal organs deformities were documented.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were ninteen cases of pulmonary venous malformations among the 234 cases of fetal congenital heart disease. These included two cases of congenital pulmonary venous hypoplasia (CPVH) or atresia, four cases of partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage (PAPVD), seven cases of total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage (TAPVD), five cases of atresia of common pulmonary vein (CPV), one case of congenital pulmonary venous hypoplasia with total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage. There were eleven cases with single ventricle, eight cases with right aortic arch, seven cases with single atrium and six cases with pulmonary valve stenosis. Eleven cases had pulmonary hypoplasia and nine cases had abnormal spleen.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There are many variations in pulmonary venous abnormalities associated with severe and complex cardiac abnormalities and internal organs malformation. Care should be exercised during autopsy examination to look for all branches of the pulmonary vein.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Beijing An Zhen Hospital, Capital Medical University/Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing 100029, China.
authors.forename: Jianfeng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shang
authors.forename: Dong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Yayan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.forename: Fei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Teng
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Guoliang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lian
authors.forename: Shaoshuai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mei
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000002:abnormalities*; D013154:Spleen / Q000473:pathology