Cardiac distribution of alpha-hANP in an infant with total anomalous pulmonary venous return

Atrial natriuretic polypeptide like immunoreactivity (irANP) was searched in the right and left atrial and ventricles following necropsy of a 2-month-old boy who underwent anesthesia for radical surgery to total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPVR), who could not be removed from a cardiopulmonary bypass. The irANP concentration was 630 micrograms.g-1 in the right atrium, 3.2 micrograms.g-1 in the right ventricule in 1 100 micrograms.g-1 in the left atrium and 1.7 micrograms.g-1 in the left ventricle, respectively in spite of numerous studies reported that ir ANP cannot be detected in adult ventricles.