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Partial anomalous left pulmonary venous return
M Caputo1, A Carcagnì, P Presbitero
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Milan, Italy. massimocaputo@hotmail.com
The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
|March 11, 2003
Abstract:
We report the case of a 52-year-old woman with partial left anomalous pulmonary venous return who was successfully treated surgically without the use of extracorporeal circulation by diverting the anomalous left vertical vein into the left atrium through a postero-lateral thoracotomy.