Case Report Surgical Correction of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage in an Adult

Total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage, congenital heart defect with increased pulmonary blood flow, pulmonary veins, adult. patients decreased significantly in the last two decades due largely to early diagnosis afforded by advances in Doppler echocardiography and management directed to stabilization and optimization of preexistent clinical conditions. Very few patients survive to old age without surgical correction4-6, and we found no case in Brazilian literature regarding TAPVD surgical repair in adults. We herein report, however, a patient with supracardiac TAPVD that, although it had been diagnosed during childhood, was corrected only during adulthood, when the worsening of the condition led the patient to seek medical attention. Case Repor