The Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Inquest Report

 

Pre operative heart
Post operative heart
Marietess Tena Capili - pre-operative heart
1 - Azygous vein
2 - Anomalous pulmonary venous drainage
    (Right pulmonary veins draining to the right atrium)
3 - Atrial septal defect
4 - Bicuspid stenotic pulmonary valve
5 - Coronary sinus
6 - Hepatic veins draining to right atrium
    instead of to inferior vena cava
7 - Azygous continuation of inferior vena cava
8 - Left Blalock-Taussig shunt
9 - Left superior vena cava
10 - Patent ductus arteriosus
11 - Anomalous pulmonary venous drainage
(Left superior vena cava draining left
    pulmonary veins at coronary sinus)
12 - Ventricular septal defect with overriding
    aorta (Double outlet right ventricle)
13 - Hypoplastic left ventricle
14 - Severe subpulmonary stenosis
Marietess Tena Capili - post-operative heart
1 - Suture narrowing of right superior vena cava (discovered at autopsy)
2 - Connection of right superior vena cava to right pulmonary artery
3 - Divided right superior vena cava
4 - Surgical enlargement of opening in septal wall between atria
5 - Suture narrowing of left superior vena cava (discovered at autopsy)
6 - Takedown of left Blalock-Taussig shunt
7 - Connection of left superior vena cava to left pulmonary artery
8 - Divided left superior vena cava

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