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Angiographic Findings of Persistent Primitive Hepatic Venous Plexus with Underdevelopment of the Infrahepatic Inferior Vena Cava in Pediatric Patients

¹ Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, 555 University Ave., Toronto M5G 1X8, Canada.
² Division of Cardiology, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto M5G 1X8, Canada.
³ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto M5G 1X8, Canada.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto M5G 1X8, Canada.

OBJECTIVE. We describe the angiographic diagnosis and significance of persistence of the primitive hepatic venous plexus with underdevelopment of the infrahepatic inferior vena cava.

CONCLUSION. We recommend that inferior venacavography be performed in routine assessment before surgery of patients with azygos or hemiazygos continuation of the inferior vena cava, in whom redirection of systemic venous blood to the pulmonary artery is contemplated.

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