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).