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Diffuse varices of the right pulmonary veins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2005

Milan Djukic ,
Claudius Rotzsch  and
Ingo Dähnert
Milan Djukic
Affiliation:
University Children's Hospital, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Claudius Rotzsch
Affiliation:
Herzzentrum Leipzig, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Ingo Dähnert
Affiliation:
Herzzentrum Leipzig, Universität Leipzig, Germany
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Abstract

We describe a patient with diffuse varices of the right pulmonary veins in association with patency of the arterial duct and an atrioventricular septal defect with separate right and left atrioventricular valvar orifices.

Keywords

Congenital heart diseasepulmonary (varicosis) venous varices
Type
Brief Report
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , June 2003 , pp. 312 - 313
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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