The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 69, 912-918, Copyright © 1975 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association
Common atrium associated with anomalous high insertion of the inferior vena cava
Y Takanashi, N Anzai, T Okada, A Sano, M Ando and S Konno
The case is reported of a 38-year-old housewife with a common atrium
associated with anomalous high insertion of the inferior vena cava, absence
of the coronary sinus, and drainage of a left hepatic vein into the left
side of common atrium. Surgical repair was performed successfully. The
procedure was closure of a nearly total atrial septal defect with a Dacron
patch. Embroyologically, the development failure of the sinu-atrial fold
appears to be the basic causal factor.