Left superior pulmonary vein connected to superior vena cava vein in a patient with situs inversus totalis: A challenging diagnosis.
Lionel RozenNadia DebbasNash DamryAurelia David-CojocariuDidier de CannièrePhilippe UngerPublished in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2017)
We herein describe the previously unreported combination of partial anomalous venous connection to the superior vena cava combined with situs inversus totalis. Following peripheral contrast injection, bubbles appeared initially in the left atrium allowing the diagnosis of a supra-atrial connection to be made using transthoracic echocardiography, but this timing was not anymore reproduced during transesophageal echocardiography performed minutes later. Cardiac computed tomography allowed the final diagnosis to be made. This case emphasizes the importance of performing bubble studies both during transesophageal and transthoracic echocardiography.
Keyphrases
- vena cava
- computed tomography
- left ventricular
- inferior vena cava
- pulmonary hypertension
- left atrial appendage
- positron emission tomography
- magnetic resonance
- magnetic resonance imaging
- atrial fibrillation
- case report
- contrast enhanced
- pulmonary embolism
- left atrial
- pulmonary artery
- coronary artery
- mitral valve
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- dual energy