PMID: 15216246Dec 1, 1980Paper

Mycotic aortic aneurysm complicating isolated partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage

Cardiovascular Diseases
Leonard L. BaileyEugene L. Petry

Abstract

An aneurysm that develops within a normal segment of the ascending aorta in a child with asymptomatic and previously undiagnosed congenital heart disease at the atrial level is most unusual and highly lethal. This report describes a child who had successful corrective surgery for this anomaly.

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