Haemodynamic consequences following closure of an Abernethy malformation in a patient following a total cavopulmonary shunt

Cardiol Young. 2018 May;28(5):768-770. doi: 10.1017/S1047951118000185. Epub 2018 Feb 21.

Abstract

A 17-year-old girl with situs ambiguous, hypoplastic right ventricle with a large ventricular septal defect, and severe pulmonary stenosis had undergone Kawashima operation 10 years back. She had significant desaturation because of a large Abernethy malformation, with reverse shunting from the inferior caval vein to the portal vein. It was closed with a vascular plug, with improvement in oxygen saturation. She developed extensive inferior caval vein thrombus following the procedure, which was managed conservatively by anti-coagulation.

Keywords: Abernethy; Kawashima; heterotaxy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Computed Tomography Angiography
  • Female
  • Heart Bypass, Right*
  • Heart Defects, Congenital / diagnosis
  • Heart Defects, Congenital / surgery*
  • Hemodynamics / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Phlebography
  • Portal Vein / abnormalities*
  • Portal Vein / diagnostic imaging
  • Vascular Malformations / diagnosis
  • Vascular Malformations / surgery*