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Anomalies of the Systemic and Pulmonary Veins

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Congenital Heart Diseases in Adults

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Abstract

The range of pathologies involving the systemic or pulmonary veins is wide. Many of these abnormalities are either clinically insignificant or have been surgically “corrected” during childhood. This chapter focuses on two types of clinical scenarios relevant to the care of adults with congenital heart disease: (1) Venous lesions that may present during or remain untreated until adulthood, and (2) those that are sequelae of previous interventions.

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  1. The Labatt Family Heart Centre, Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Lars Grosse-Wortmann

  2. Department of Paediatrics, Willem Alexander Children’s Hospital, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Arno Roest

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Grosse-Wortmann, L., Roest, A. (2019). Anomalies of the Systemic and Pulmonary Veins. In: Ley, S., Ley-Zaporozhan, J. (eds) Congenital Heart Diseases in Adults. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2018_195

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