%0 Journal Article
%T Retroesophageal Infracardiac Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage
%A Christopher A. Caldarone
%A Gyaandeo Maharajh
%A Hadi Toeg
%A Maria L. Rodriguez
%J World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery
%@ 2150-136X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/2150135117731893
%X This case report describes the management of a term baby, born cyanotic, who was preoperatively diagnosed to have an obstructed total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage (TAPVD) in association with a functionally univentricular heart. An urgent repair of the anomalous pulmonary venous drainage was done, and a modified Blalock-Taussig shunt was constructed. Intraoperative difficulties were encountered when the pulmonary venous confluence was not seen in the usual location in the posterior mediastinal space, anterior to the esophagus. This report describes the rare finding of infracardiac TAPVD that is located in the retroesophageal space
%K cardiac anatomy
%K congenital heart disease
%K congenital heart surgery
%K neonate
%K pathology¡ªpulmonary veins
%K total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2150135117731893