Temporary pulmonary vein stenosis during intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography in total cavopulmonary connection

Pediatr Cardiol. 2006 Jan-Feb;27(1):134-136. doi: 10.1007/s00246-005-1063-8.

Abstract

Two patients operated on by one of the authors (MK) developed hemodynamic instability after otherwise uneventful completion of total cavopulmonary anastomosis with an extracardiac tube. In both, a stenosis of the right pulmonary veins was demonstrated during routine intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography. The transesophageal probe was found to be the underlying problem. Apparently, the pulmonary veins became compressed between the probe and the extracardiac conduit.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aorta, Thoracic / abnormalities*
  • Aorta, Thoracic / diagnostic imaging
  • Aorta, Thoracic / surgery
  • Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation*
  • Central Venous Pressure / physiology
  • Child, Preschool
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Echocardiography, Doppler*
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal*
  • Female
  • Heart Bypass, Right*
  • Heart Defects, Congenital / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Defects, Congenital / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Intraoperative Complications / diagnostic imaging*
  • Male
  • Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease / diagnostic imaging*
  • Reoperation
  • Surgical Instruments
  • Tricuspid Atresia / diagnostic imaging
  • Tricuspid Atresia / surgery
  • Vena Cava, Superior / abnormalities*
  • Vena Cava, Superior / diagnostic imaging
  • Vena Cava, Superior / surgery