Materials & Methods
The Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC-2) of the Bhanubhai and Madhuben Patel Centre for Medical Care and Education, Anand, Gujarat, India, approved this study (Approval number - IEC/BU/2021/Cr.48/283).
We identified 10 patients from our computerized cardiovascular database (FTP 192.168.0.5) who underwent primary surgical repair of SVASD between December 2018 and October 2021 (Table1). Their mean age was 3.7 years (median, 3.5; range, 1-8 years). Seven patients were boys and 3 were girls. One patient (P10) had left upper PAPVC without SVASD and was included in the study for purposes of comparison.
Drainage of the PAPVC was directly to the right atrium-superior vena cava (RA-SVC) junction in the 9 patients with SVASDs; in the other patient (P10), the left upper lobe of the lung exhibited partial anomalous venous drainage through a vertical vein, which in turn drained into the brachiocephalic vein; this scenario was suggestive of partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage (PAPVD).