Partial anomalous venous connection with intrapulmonary dual drainage: Transcatheter treatment of a rare entity

Varun Aggarwal; Alaa K Mohamed; Sameh M Said

doi:10.4103/apc.apc_77_22

Partial anomalous venous connection with intrapulmonary dual drainage: Transcatheter treatment of a rare entity

Ann Pediatr Cardiol. 2023 May-Jun;16(3):229-230. doi: 10.4103/apc.apc_77_22. Epub 2023 Sep 8.

Authors

Varun Aggarwal¹, Alaa K Mohamed¹, Sameh M Said²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
² Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Abstract

Partial anomalous pulmonary venous return (PAPVR) is a rare congenital condition, and dual-drainage connection PAPVR to the left atrium has been reported in a few cases in the literature; in which cases, percutaneous catheterization was successfully used in lieu of surgery. We, hereby, describe a 7-month-old boy with a functional single-ventricle physiology with dual drainage of the left upper pulmonary vein to the left atrium and the innominate vein. Appropriate recognition of this entity allowed safe occlusion of the anomalous draining vein.

Keywords: Cardiac catheterization; congenital heart disease; dual pulmonary venous drainage; partial anomalous venous connection.