Persistent left superior vena cava (PLSVC) is the most common congenital malformation of thoracic venous return and is present in 0.3 to 0.5% of individuals in the general population. This heart specimen was dissected from a 35-year-old male cadaver whose cause of death was determined as non-cardiac. The heart was examined and we found a PLSVC draining into the coronary sinus. The right superio...

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YSTEMIC venous anomalies, such as persistent left superior vena cava and absent inferior vena cava, are not so rare in various congenital heart diseases.1) Preoperative identification of these anomalous systemic venous connections is clinically important, because their presence necessitates modified technique for venous cannulation of cardiopulmonary bypass. In cases of persistent left superior...

The persistence of a left-sided superior vena cava is the most common variant of systemic venous drainage. Increased utility of cardiac imaging, in particular cross-sectional techniques such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance (MR), will result in increased detection of the anomaly and its variants. Whilst in the typical form it is often haemodynamically insignificant, its discovery m...