Anomalous Pulmonary and Systemic Venous Drainage by A
Thorax: first published as 10.1136/thx.11.2.119 on 1 June 1956. Downloaded from Thorax (1956), 11, 119. ANOMALOUS PULMONARY AND SYSTEMIC VENOUS DRAINAGE BY A. A. FITZGERALD PEEL, K. BLUM, J. C. C. KELLY, AND T. SEMPLE From the Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow (RECEIVED FOR PUBLICATION NOVEMBER 26, 1955) In Abbott's (1936) necropsy series of 1,000 cases coronary sinus, either with or without a connexion of congenital heart disease, anomalies of the great to the right superior vena cava through a left veins were found in 13. Of these nine had innominate vein; and (b) those in which the left abnormal major systemic veins and four had superior vena cava receives one or more pulmon- anomalous pulmonary veins. This classical series ary veins. In group 2 no right superior vena cava is based on findings before such modern methods is present. It will be noted that in group 1 (b) as angiocardiography and cardiac catheterization arterial blood enters the superior vena cava, but were widely used. Taussig (1947) differentiates groups 1 (a) and 2 involve systemic veins alone cases in which some pulmonary veins drain into and do not lead to an arterio-venous shunt. A the right atrium from those in which all pulmonary veno-arterial shunt occurs only in those cases, veins do so. She regards anomalies of the apparently few in number, in which the left superior and inferior venae cavae as rare and superior vena cava enters the left atrium. copyright. difficult to diagnose. She records one case in Examples have been described by McCotter (1916), which both superior and inferior venae cavae Rodriguez Diaz, Castellanos, and Garcia Faes entered the left atrium, one in which there was (1949), Mankin and Burchell (1953), and Feindt no inferior vena cava, and two in which a left- and Hauch (1953).
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