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Left Atrial Stenosis Induced Pulmonary Venous Arterialization and Group 2 Pulmonary Hypertension in Rat
Published on: November 18, 2018
An extremely rare case with right superior pulmonary vein translocation
Go Kamimura1, Kazuhiro Ueda2, Koki Maeda1
1Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Dental and Medical Science, 8-35-1 Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima, 890-8520, Japan.
Background:
There have been a number of reports on pulmonary venous anomalies. However, most of the reports focused on the anatomical branching pattern of the peripheral pulmonary veins.
Case Presentation:
We report a 75-year-old female whose right superior pulmonary vein V1 existed dorsal to the right main pulmonary artery and V2+3 existed dorsal to V4+5. Thus, we could not find V1 and V2+3 in the hilum just after a thoracotomy to perform right upper lobectomy for lung cancer. Thus, the right main pulmonary artery and the superior trunk (A1+3) were exposed without cutting the superior pulmonary vein.
Conclusion:
There has been no report so far regarding this type of pulmonary vein translocation. Preoperative three-dimensional computed tomography images were helpful to identify this variant.
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