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An unexpected case of post-operative superior caval vein syndrome

Part of: Surgery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2018

Lynn Peng  and
Lisa Wise-Faberowski
Lynn Peng*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital/Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Lisa Wise-Faberowski
Affiliation:
Department of Anesthesiology, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital/Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
*
Author for correspondence: L. Peng, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Stanford University-SOM/Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, 750 Welch Road, Suite 305, Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA. Tel: 650 723 7913; Fax: 650 724 4922; E-mail: lynnpeng@stanford.edu
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Abstract

Superior caval vein obstruction in children after congenital heart surgery has been more associated with thrombosis formation as result of single-ventricle palliation, infection, indwelling devices/catheters, or external compression. Many of these patients will present to the cardiac catheterisation laboratory for evaluation and possible intervention. We present an unusual case of superior caval vein obstruction in a patient after Tetralogy of Fallot repair.

Keywords

Superior caval vein syndrometetralogy of fallotvenous occulsion
Type
Brief Report
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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 28 , Issue 6 , June 2018 , pp. 879 - 881
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© Cambridge University Press 2018 

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