Rodriguez Maria L, Caldarone Christopher A, Toeg Hadi, Maharajh Gyaandeo
1 Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
2 The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2019 May;10(3):367-369. doi: 10.1177/2150135117731893. Epub 2017 Nov 9.
This case report describes the management of a term baby, born cyanotic, who was preoperatively diagnosed to have an obstructed total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage (TAPVD) in association with a functionally univentricular heart. An urgent repair of the anomalous pulmonary venous drainage was done, and a modified Blalock-Taussig shunt was constructed. Intraoperative difficulties were encountered when the pulmonary venous confluence was not seen in the usual location in the posterior mediastinal space, anterior to the esophagus. This report describes the rare finding of infracardiac TAPVD that is located in the retroesophageal space.
