Progress in Pediatric Cardiology 2020

DOI: 10.1016

Received 15 January 2020; Received in revised form 21 February 2020; Accepted 27 February 2020

Stent placement in an occluded left superior vena cava to right atrial baffle

aided by transhepatic access in a patient with heterotaxy

Author

Gabriel Cruz, Alvaro Galindo, William N. Evans, Humberto Restrepo, Abraham Rothman

Source

Children's Heart Center Nevada, 3006 S. Maryland Parkway, Suite # 690, Las Vegas, NV 89109, USA.

E-mail address: arothman@childrensheartcenter.com

Abstract

We describe placement of a covered stent in an occluded left superior vena cava to right atrial baffle in a 9-year old patient with

heterotaxy and an associated interrupted inferior vena, which required a transhepatic approach. Coronary angiography helped

direct the Brockenbrough needle across the obstruction. Eighteen months post intervention, transthoracic echocardiography

confirmed stent patency.