Alkashkari Wail, Al-Husayni Faisal, Althobaiti Mohammed, Omeish Attafah, Alqahtani Saad A
Cardiology, King Faisal Cardiac Center, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, Jeddah, SAU.
Cardiology, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Jeddah, SAU.
Cureus. 2020 May 19;12(5):e8204. doi: 10.7759/cureus.8204.
We describe a case of a 17-year-old male patient who was admitted to the hospital for an evaluation of his recurrent postprandial abdominal pain and fatigue on exertion. He was discovered to have severe post-ductal aortic coarctation (CoA) and uninterrupted left-sided inferior vena cava (IVC) draining into the right atrium crossing anterior to the abdominal aorta. There were no signs of IVC compression. Patient symptoms improved dramatically after CoA stenting on follow up. The presence of uninterrupted left-sided IVC in this particular case created a diagnostic dilemma, and it was of great importance to know such anomaly before the procedure. This association of uninterrupted left-sided IVC with CoA is unusual, and to our knowledge, our case is the first to report such congenital association.
我们描述了一例17岁男性患者,他因反复餐后腹痛和劳力性疲劳入院接受评估。他被发现患有严重的动脉导管后主动脉缩窄(CoA)以及左侧下腔静脉(IVC)不间断地引流至右心房,且该下腔静脉在腹主动脉前方交叉。没有下腔静脉受压的迹象。随访时,患者在CoA支架置入术后症状显著改善。在这种特殊情况下,左侧下腔静脉不间断存在造成了诊断上的困境,并且在手术前了解这种异常情况非常重要。左侧下腔静脉不间断与CoA的这种关联并不常见,据我们所知,我们的病例是首例报告这种先天性关联的病例。