Persistencia de la vena cava superior izquierda: Diagnóstico e importancia prenatal

certain heart fetal planes must be realized during a routine obstetric ultrasound in order to identify a group of anomalies such as the persistency of the left superior caval vein. when an isolated left superior venal vein is identified without any other anomaly of the fetal heart, it does not have any perinatal repercussion. its importance lies in the fact that a considerable number of these cases are associated with a high incidence of congenital heart diseases and anatomic and chromosomal abnormalities. this article reports nine cases of persistency of the left superior caval vein as well as the associated heart abnormalities and the extra-cardiac alterations found.