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Extracardiac reconstruction of anomalous superior systemic venous return

^a Department of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
^b Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Meyer Children's Hospital, Rambam Medical Center, The Technion, Haifa, Israel

^* Corresponding author. Address: 804 Ames Av, Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA. Tel.: +1-650-8529-694
gabiamir{at}stanford.edu

A heretofore undescribed surgical approach for correcting a rare congenital cardiac malformation consisting of an absent right superior vena cava with persistent left superior vena cava associated with situs solitus draining into the left atrium is presented. The intra-atrial septum was intact. Normal anatomy was achieved and recovery was uneventful.

Key Words: Absent right superior vena cava; Persistent left superior vena cava; Situs solitus; Intact atrial septum; Surgical correction