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Abnormal location of umbilical venous catheter due to Scimitar syndrome

Scimitar syndrome is a rare congenital anomaly where the right pulmonary veins return to the inferior vena cava (IVC) just below the diaphragm. On chest X-ray (CXR), an IVC catheter will be in a bizarre location outside the heart if it inadvertently passes into the scimitar vein rather than into the...

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Autores principales: Mart, Christopher R, Van Dorn, Charlotte S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4189247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25298705
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.140866
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description Scimitar syndrome is a rare congenital anomaly where the right pulmonary veins return to the inferior vena cava (IVC) just below the diaphragm. On chest X-ray (CXR), an IVC catheter will be in a bizarre location outside the heart if it inadvertently passes into the scimitar vein rather than into the right atrium.
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spelling pubmed-41892472014-10-08 Abnormal location of umbilical venous catheter due to Scimitar syndrome Mart, Christopher R Van Dorn, Charlotte S Ann Pediatr Cardiol Images Scimitar syndrome is a rare congenital anomaly where the right pulmonary veins return to the inferior vena cava (IVC) just below the diaphragm. On chest X-ray (CXR), an IVC catheter will be in a bizarre location outside the heart if it inadvertently passes into the scimitar vein rather than into the right atrium. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4189247/ /pubmed/25298705 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.140866 Text en Copyright: © Annals of Pediatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Abnormal location of umbilical venous catheter due to Scimitar syndrome
title_full Abnormal location of umbilical venous catheter due to Scimitar syndrome
title_fullStr Abnormal location of umbilical venous catheter due to Scimitar syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Abnormal location of umbilical venous catheter due to Scimitar syndrome
title_short Abnormal location of umbilical venous catheter due to Scimitar syndrome
title_sort abnormal location of umbilical venous catheter due to scimitar syndrome
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4189247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25298705
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.140866
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