Talwar Sachin, George Niwin, Satsangi Amitabh, Tharranath Ikshudhanva, Gharde Parag, Choudhary Shiv K
Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Department of Cardiac Anesthesia, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
J Card Surg. 2021 Aug;36(8):2965-2969. doi: 10.1111/jocs.15595. Epub 2021 May 5.
Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection with intact interatrial septum is extremely rare.
In these patients, a right to left shunt through a ventricular septal defect or a patent ductus arteriosus is mandatory to maintain the systemic circulation. Mechanical or physiological restriction of shunting through these pathways results in rapid clinical deterioration.
We describe the anatomical findings with surgical repair in one such 10-day-old baby.