Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return with Stenosis in Complex Left Heart Defect - Lethal Anomaly - 3 Cases Report

Abstract

Abstract In prenatal cardiology center 3 cases of anomalous pulmonary venous return with pulmonary venous stenosis were diagnosed on the basis of continues Doppler blood flow (V max >100 cm/sec). In each of 3 cases left heart defect was diagnosed at 29th, 35th and 36th week of gestation. In each case newborn died on the 1st or 2nd day of life before qualification to cardiac surgery. At present, anomalous pulmonary venous return with pulmonary venous stenosis and complex heart defect in fetus seems to be lethal cardiac defect.