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Twelve years after an apparently successful surgical correction of infradiaphragmatic (obstructed) total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage, a 12-year-old boy developed evidence of pulmonary artery hypertension secondary to pulmonary venous obstruction due to an apparent lack of growth at the anastomotic site.
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Kveselis, D.A., Chameides, L., Diana, D.J. et al. Late pulmonary venous obstruction after surgical repair of infradiaphragmatic total anomalous pulmonary venous return. Pediatr Cardiol 9, 175–177 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02080561
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