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Extracardiac reconstruction of anomalous superior systemic venous return
Gabriel Amir1, Asaad Khoury, Avraham Lorber
1Department of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel. gabiamir@stanford.edu
Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
|August 3, 2007
Abstract:
A heretofore undescribed surgical approach for correcting a rare congenital cardiac malformation consisting of an absent right superior vena cava with persistent left superior vena cava associated with situs solitus draining into the left atrium is presented. The intra-atrial septum was intact. Normal anatomy was achieved and recovery was uneventful.
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