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Anomalous Right Superior Vena Cava in an Asymptomatic Patient

Congenital superior vena cava (SVC) anomalies are not uncommon. However, an absence of a left SVC and an anomalous right SVC without additional congenital heart defects is very rare. We present a 38-year-old male with an 'anomalous SVC' that was found to be descending anterior to the pleur...

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Autores principales: Bhatt, Hardik, McGreevy, Megan, Chung, Charles J, Kattel, Sharma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7314375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32596082
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8265
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description Congenital superior vena cava (SVC) anomalies are not uncommon. However, an absence of a left SVC and an anomalous right SVC without additional congenital heart defects is very rare. We present a 38-year-old male with an 'anomalous SVC' that was found to be descending anterior to the pleural space and draining into the inferior vena cava (IVC) at the level of the right atrium. This was associated with an anomalous right upper and lower pulmonary vein draining into this anomalous SVC. To our knowledge, this combination of congenital anomalies has not been previously described in the medical literature.
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spelling pubmed-73143752020-06-26 Anomalous Right Superior Vena Cava in an Asymptomatic Patient Bhatt, Hardik McGreevy, Megan Chung, Charles J Kattel, Sharma Cureus Cardiology Congenital superior vena cava (SVC) anomalies are not uncommon. However, an absence of a left SVC and an anomalous right SVC without additional congenital heart defects is very rare. We present a 38-year-old male with an 'anomalous SVC' that was found to be descending anterior to the pleural space and draining into the inferior vena cava (IVC) at the level of the right atrium. This was associated with an anomalous right upper and lower pulmonary vein draining into this anomalous SVC. To our knowledge, this combination of congenital anomalies has not been previously described in the medical literature. Cureus 2020-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7314375/ /pubmed/32596082 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8265 Text en Copyright © 2020, Bhatt et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Bhatt, Hardik
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Chung, Charles J
Kattel, Sharma
Anomalous Right Superior Vena Cava in an Asymptomatic Patient
title Anomalous Right Superior Vena Cava in an Asymptomatic Patient
title_full Anomalous Right Superior Vena Cava in an Asymptomatic Patient
title_fullStr Anomalous Right Superior Vena Cava in an Asymptomatic Patient
title_full_unstemmed Anomalous Right Superior Vena Cava in an Asymptomatic Patient
title_short Anomalous Right Superior Vena Cava in an Asymptomatic Patient
title_sort anomalous right superior vena cava in an asymptomatic patient
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7314375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32596082
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8265
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