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Pulmonary resection and contralateral anomalous venous drainage: a lethal combination
M D Black1, F M Shamji, W Goldstein
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ontario, Canada.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|April 1, 1992
Abstract:
A 72-year-old acyanotic woman had development of acute right heart failure with systemic hypotension 2 hours after a curative right intrapericardial pneumonectomy for primary lung cancer. A postoperative pulmonary angiogram revealed a major left to right shunt through previously unsuspected partial anomalous venous drainage of the left upper lobe of the lung.