Cabrera A, Arriola J, Llorente A
Children's Hospital, Vizcaya, Spain.
Int J Cardiol. 1994 Aug;46(1):79-81. doi: 10.1016/0167-5273(94)90121-x.
A 3-year-old symptomatic girl was diagnosed, using contrast echocardiography, as having an anomalous connection of inferior vena cava to the left atrium. Contrast material was injected in a peripheral foot vein, the diagnosis was confirmed by color Doppler flow echocardiography and cardiac catheterization. The defect was corrected and the patient is asymptomatic at this time.