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...

Total anomalous drainage of pulmonary venous blood produces a severe circulatory disturbance. In the most common type of this category of lesions, the entire venous return from the lungs enters a common venous channel ascending in the left superior mnediastinum where it connects with the innominate vein. Seven cases of this type are described. Successful total correction was possible in 4 of th...

Total anomalous drainage of pulmonary venous blood produces a severe circulatory disturbance. In the most common type of this category of lesions, the entire venous return from the lungs enters a common venous channel ascending in the left superior mnediastinum where it connects with the innominate vein. Seven cases of this type are described. Successful total correction was possible in 4 of th...

Developmental venous anomaly (DVA)/ Cerebral Venous Angioma is the most common type of cerebral vascular malformations, mostly an incidental benign finding. But there are documented associated complications like parenchymal signal abnormalities, thrombosis, cavernous malformations and atrophy.
 In this report, we present a unique case DVA with cortical changes mimicking Glioma. Altered hae...

Dear Editor, We read with interest the article of Chou et al. (1). The authors reviewed the multidetector computed tomography (CT) findings of congenital coronary sinus anomalies and reported two cases of coronary sinus anomaly. We would like to share our observations, with respect to coronary sinus anomalies, with our colleagues. For better clinical outcomes, coronary venous variations should ...

A man aged 29 was first seen at the age of 11, when he was found to have a congenital anomaly of the pulmonary veins which follow an abnormal course to the hilum. On the left side, two large veins descend peripherally before turning medially towards the left atrium; on the right, several smaller veins follow a similar circuitous route from the periphery, before uniting into two main veins which...

In 24 (0.98%) of 2457 patients with congenital heart disease the brachiocephalic vein was in an anomalous position below the aortic arch. This is a much higher proportion of such cases than reported so far. This high frequency may arise from differences in the study population and the method of diagnosis. This venous anomaly was more common in patients with tetralogy of Fallot or ventricular se...