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Transcatheter Embolization of a Persistent Vertical Vein: A Rare Cause of Left-to-Right Shunt and Right-Sided Heart Failure Cover

Transcatheter Embolization of a Persistent Vertical Vein: A Rare Cause of Left-to-Right Shunt and Right-Sided Heart Failure

Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal
Volume 15 (2019): Issue 1
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|Jan 2019
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Figure 1.

(A) Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging showing an anomalous connection, the vertical vein, between the pulmonary venous confluence and the hepatic portal venous system. (B) Cardiac computed tomography demonstrating the vertical vein. (C) The vertical vein measured 16.6 × 14 mm in size. (D) 22-mm AMPLATZER Vascular Plug II in place was deployed in the vertical vein.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14797/mdcj-15-1-86 | Journal eISSN: 1947-6108
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Language: English
Page range: 86 - 87
Published on: Jan 1, 2019
Published by: Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
vertical vein,
transcatheter embolization

© 2019 Stephanie C. Fuentes Rojas, Akanksha Thakkar, Ponraj Chinnadurai, Eunice Karanja, Danish Bawa, Gary Monteiro, Thomas MacGillivray, John P. Breinholt, C. Huie Lin, published by Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License.

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