[Obstruction of the superior vena cava following a corrective intervention for total anomalous pulmonary venous return treated by percutaneous angioplasty]

G Ital Cardiol. 1994 Dec;24(12):1581-4.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

We report a case of a patient operated on for total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage at the age of six months. Seven years later an angiographic examination showed a obstruction of superior vena cava at Juxta right atrial. The patient, asymptomatic until the age of fifteen, was then subjected to further hemodynamic and angiocardiographic examination due to the appearance of an incessant and therapy-resistant cough. After the diagnostic procedure was completed, percutaneous balloon angioplasty was performed on the obstruction, which marked the remission of the symptoms.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Angioplasty, Balloon*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Postoperative Complications / diagnosis
  • Postoperative Complications / etiology
  • Postoperative Complications / therapy*
  • Pulmonary Veins / abnormalities*
  • Pulmonary Veins / surgery
  • Radiography
  • Superior Vena Cava Syndrome / diagnosis
  • Superior Vena Cava Syndrome / etiology
  • Superior Vena Cava Syndrome / therapy*
  • Time Factors
  • Vena Cava, Superior / diagnostic imaging