Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Objectives: To retrospectively review 14 cases, describe preoperative imaging, anatomic findings and confirmation at surgery, surgical technique, and outcomes. Materials and Methods:We describe anatomic variations in mixed-type total anomalous pulmonary venous return and surgical outcomes in a case series from 2 centers.Mixed-type total anomalous pulmonary venous return is classified based on the pattern of pulmonary venous drainage.Type I refers to '2+2' drainage of venous pairs, type II refers to '3+1' and type III refers to all other variants.Six patients (43%) had type I "2+2" drainage; 2 patients had 2 supra-cardiac and 2 cardiac connections, and 4 patients had 2 infra-cardiac connections and 2 cardiac.4 patients (29%) had type II "3+1" drainage.Three patients had 3 cardiac and 1 supra-cardiac variants and one had a rare supra-cardiac pulmonary venous combination.4 patients (29%) had type III morphology. 2 patients of them had 3+2 anatomy with 3 supra-cardiac and 2 cardiac connections, both of which included 3 right-sided pulmonary veins.The remaining 2 patients had unique anatomy, one with tri-level attachment to cardiac, supra-cardiac, and infra-cardiac and the last with all supracardiac pulmonary venous drainage but in a "3+1+1" pattern.
Authors: Mohannad Dawary, Fareed Khouqeer, Ziad Issa, Louai Alkhalaf, Faisal Alshamdin, Massimo Griselli
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4405763325