Congenital stenosis of individual pulmonary veins.

CONGENITAL STENOSIS of individual pulmonary veins as they join the left atrium is a rare cause of pulmonary venous and arterial hypertension. Cases have been reported by Reye,1 Ferencz and Dammann,2 Andrews,3 Bernstein and associates,4 and Edwards.5' 6 Emslie-Smith and associates7 reported a patient with membranous occlusion of the pulmonary veins associated with pulmonary hypertension. The purpose of this report is to correlate the clinical, pathologic, roentgenographic, and hemodynamic data in a case of congenital stenosis of the individual pulmonary veins. The report also comments on the possibility of surgical correction of this malformation.