• J Card Surg · Jul 2005

    Case Reports

    Left superior vena cava draining into the left atrium, associated with partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection: surgical correction.

    • Andrea Quarti, Marco Di Eusanio, Michele Danilo Pierri, and Giuseppe Di Eusanio.
    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, G.M. Lancisi Hospital, Ancona, Italy. aquarti@libero.it
    • J Card Surg. 2005 Jul 1;20(4):353-5.

    AbstractA persistent left superior vena cava draining into the left atrium may produce a symptomatic right-to-left shunt. Although intra-atrial rerouting techniques, in patients with no connecting vein, have proved to be reliable and successful, in many cases the extracardiac repair is preferable. We report a case of a 5-month-old patient with a not connected left superior vena cava draining into the left atrium, associated with atrial septal defect and partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection. The correction has been achieved by rerouting the pulmonary venous return into the left atrium and by transposition of the left vena cava on the right appendage.

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