Results He was taken to operation, pericardium was very adherent and epicardium was cleaned with gentle dissection. Inferior vena cava cannulation was performed and the cannula was misguided to left atrium transseptally, it was detected by the help of blood color and cannula was redirected to IVC by special stretching manuevre. Under total cardiopulmonary bypass fossa ovalis type secundum ASD w...

Sinus venosus atrial septal defect (SVD) is a rare cardiac abnormality in adults. Particularly, the inferior type is difficult to depict by transthoracic echocardiography because of its infero-posterior location to the fossa ovalis. We describe the case of a 33-year-old woman whose chest X-ray taken during bronchopneumonia revealed a cardiomegaly. Further echocardiographic investigations showed...

OBJECTIVES The morphology of region umbilical vein, umbilical sinus and ductus venosus of human fetuses have been investigated. MATERIAL AND METHODS 26 human fetuses between 20 and 40 weeks' gestation were examined by morphological methods. The umbilical vein, DV and the portal vein were obtained after termination of gestation. Tissue samples have been fixed in phormaldehyde solution (pH 7,2)...

AFTER the postnatal mammalian circulation has been established, blood flows serially from the systemic veins through the right side of the heart to the lungs, then to the left atrium and ventricle, which ejects the blood into the aorta to be distributed to the body, after which it returns to the systemic venous system. Apart from a small amount of coronary venous blood which enters the left ven...

AFTER the postnatal mammalian circulation has been established, blood flows serially from the systemic veins through the right side of the heart to the lungs, then to the left atrium and ventricle, which ejects the blood into the aorta to be distributed to the body, after which it returns to the systemic venous system. Apart from a small amount of coronary venous blood which enters the left ven...

We present a case of 51-year-old patient after surgical closure of atrial septal defect several years ago. Enlarged right ventricle, right atrium and pulmonary hypertension were found on routine transthoracic echocardiography. Transesophageal echocardiography revealed sinus venosus atrial septal defect. Partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage was suspected. Only the computed tomography with...

ABSTRACTThe valves of right horn of systemic venous sinus are prominent structures within the right atrium during early embryonic period. Involution of these structures may not be complete, resulting in a spectrum of anatomical presentations such as cyanosis. A full-term male neonate referred to our hospital for precise evaluation of severe cyanosis on the first day of life. Echocardiographic e...