Anomalous venous circuit: a detour to the heart

Transvenous pacing in presence of anomalous venous return to heart.

The majority of patients requiring pacemakers are paced using a transvenous electrode. Difficulties may be encountered in passing the electrode wire into the heart because of anomalous venous return. Probably the most frequent anomaly is a persistent left superior vena cava and the rarest is absence of the right superior vena cava (Winter, 1954; Hudson, I965; Sherman, I963). Recent case reports...

Partial anomalous pulmonary venous return showing anomalous venous return to the azygos vein.

Partial anomalous pulmonary venous return (PAPVR) is a congenital heart disease with a reported incidence of autopsied case. The location of the anomalous pulmonary venous return is usually the right atrium, superior vena cava (SVC), and sometimes the brachiocephalic vein, inferior vena cava (IVC) or coronary venous sinus. Recently we experienced a rare case of PAPVR showing anomalous right tot...

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Anomalous pulmonary venous return.

are, however, generally lacking. For purposes of this presentation, 113 selected instances of anomalous pulmonary venous return encountered at Brooke General Hospital, Walter Reed General Hospital, and the Registry of Cardiovascular Pathology of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology have been reviewed and correlated with related material from the literature. To obtain completeness, tempered w...

Anomalous pulmonary venous drainage.

Cases of drainage of the pulmonary veins into the right side of the heart have been well summarized by Brody (1942). He reported 38 cases of complete, and 68 cases of partial, drainage of the pulmonary veins into the right atrium or its tributaries. The purpose of this paper is to record a further case, and to summarize the cases not reported by Brody and those which have been reported during t...