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A Novel Method: Super-selective Adrenal Venous Sampling
Published on: September 15, 2017
[Partial anomalous pulmonary venous return in a 64-year-old woman]
F Aboukhoudir1, I Aboukhoudir2, M Pansieri2
1Service de cardiologie, centre hospitalier d'Avignon, 84000 Avignon, France; EA4278, laboratoire de pharm-écologie-cardiovasculaire, Avignon université, 84000 Avignon, France.
Abstract:
Partial anomalous pulmonary venous return (PAPVR) represents 3 % of the congenital cardiopathies. Diagnosis in adults is challenging as clinical symptomatology is non-specific and echocardiographic signs are discrete and misleading potentially confusing with idiopathic pulmonary hypertension. We report the case of a 64-year-old woman in whom we diagnosed PAPVR associated with sinus venosus atrial septal defect. We describe medical history, clinical signs, investigations and postoperative evolution.
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