Pulmonary resection and contralateral anomalous venous drainage: a lethal combination.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
A 72-year-old acyanotic woman had development of acute right heart failure with systemic hypotension 2 hours after a curative right intrapericardial pneumonectomy for primary lung cancer. A postoperative pulmonary angiogram revealed a major left to right shunt through previously unsuspected partial anomalous venous drainage of the left upper lobe of the lung.
Medical subject headings
- Brachiocephalic Veins
- Cardiac Output, Low
- Hypotension
- Pneumonectomy
- Pulmonary Veins