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SUBMITTER: Bou Chaaya RG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7768637 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine 20201209
Thirty-eight-year-old male presented for evaluation of abdominal swelling, lower extremity edema and dyspnea on exertion. Extensive work-up in search of the culprit etiology revealed the presence of an Anomalous Right Upper Pulmonary Venous Return (ARUPVR) into the Superior Vena Cava (SVC). During the attempted repair, the pericardium was found to be thickened and constrictive. Only one other case of co-existent partial anomalous pulmonary venous return and constrictive pericarditis (CP) has bee ...[more]