Clarifying the anatomy of the superior sinus venosus defect.
Jay RelanSaurabh Kumar GuptaRengarajan RajagopalSivasubramanian RamakrishnanGurpreet Singh GulatiShyam S KothariAnita SaxenaSanjiv SharmaPalleti RajashekarRobert Henry AndersonPublished in: Heart (British Cardiac Society) (2021)
Anomalous connection of the right-sided pulmonary veins is universal, but is not limited to the right upper lobe. Not all individuals have over-riding of superior caval vein. In a minority of patients, the defect has significant caudal extension, and anomalously connected pulmonary veins are committed to the left atrium. These findings have significant clinical and therapeutic implications.