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Meandering pulmonary veins: Two case reports

RATIONALE: Meandering pulmonary vein is a rare congenital pulmonary vascular anomaly. It presents unilateral single pulmonary vein that takes a circuitous route in the lung and drains normally into the left atrium. Most cases of meandering pulmonary vein have been reported to be right-sided. A few o...

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Autores principales: Lee, Miji, Jeon, Kyung Nyeo, Park, Mi Jung, Bae, Kyungsoo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7220388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32312001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000019815
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Park, Mi Jung
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description RATIONALE: Meandering pulmonary vein is a rare congenital pulmonary vascular anomaly. It presents unilateral single pulmonary vein that takes a circuitous route in the lung and drains normally into the left atrium. Most cases of meandering pulmonary vein have been reported to be right-sided. A few of them coincided with features of scimitar syndrome. PATIENT CONCERNS: A 71-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man presented with incidentally found abnormal findings on chest radiographs. DIAGNOSIS: Through multi-detector chest computed tomography, the 71-year-old woman was diagnosed as left-sided meandering pulmonary vein without any other anomalies while the 20-year-old man was diagnosed as having right-sided meandering pulmonary vein with features of scimitar syndrome. INTERVENTIONS: Specific intervention was not performed for either patient. OUTCOMES: These patients were reassured and discharged. They are doing well without any respiratory symptoms. LESSONS: Meandering pulmonary veins can occur on the left side and coincide with features of scimitar syndrome. Multi-detector computed tomography with 3D reconstruction allows clear depiction of vascular connections and associated anomalies, obviating the need for invasive procedures.
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spelling pubmed-72203882020-06-15 Meandering pulmonary veins: Two case reports Lee, Miji Jeon, Kyung Nyeo Park, Mi Jung Bae, Kyungsoo Medicine (Baltimore) 3400 RATIONALE: Meandering pulmonary vein is a rare congenital pulmonary vascular anomaly. It presents unilateral single pulmonary vein that takes a circuitous route in the lung and drains normally into the left atrium. Most cases of meandering pulmonary vein have been reported to be right-sided. A few of them coincided with features of scimitar syndrome. PATIENT CONCERNS: A 71-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man presented with incidentally found abnormal findings on chest radiographs. DIAGNOSIS: Through multi-detector chest computed tomography, the 71-year-old woman was diagnosed as left-sided meandering pulmonary vein without any other anomalies while the 20-year-old man was diagnosed as having right-sided meandering pulmonary vein with features of scimitar syndrome. INTERVENTIONS: Specific intervention was not performed for either patient. OUTCOMES: These patients were reassured and discharged. They are doing well without any respiratory symptoms. LESSONS: Meandering pulmonary veins can occur on the left side and coincide with features of scimitar syndrome. Multi-detector computed tomography with 3D reconstruction allows clear depiction of vascular connections and associated anomalies, obviating the need for invasive procedures. Wolters Kluwer Health 2020-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7220388/ /pubmed/32312001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000019815 Text en Copyright © 2020 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7220388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32312001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000019815
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