What Is Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return (TAPVR) ?
Total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPVR) is a birth defect of the heart. In a baby with TAPVR, oxygen-rich blood does not return from the lungs to the left atrium. Instead, the oxygen-rich blood returns to the right side of the heart. Here, oxygen-rich blood mixes with oxygen-poor blood. This causes the baby to get less oxygen than is needed to the body.
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To survive with this defect, babies with TAPVR usually have a hole between the right atrium and the left atrium (an atrial septal defect) that allows the mixed blood to get to the left side of the heart and pumped out to the rest of the body. Some children can have other heart defects along with TAPVR, aside from the atrial septal defect. Because a baby with this defect may need surgery or other procedures soon after birth, TAPVR is considered a critical congenital heart defect. Congenital means present at birth.
In a related defect, partial anomalous pulmonary venous return (PAPVR), not all of the veins have an abnormal connection. There are some abnormal connections, but one or more of the veins return normally to the left atrium. Therefore, PAPVR is not as critical as TAPVR.
In a baby without a congenital heart defect, the right side of the heart pumps oxygen-poor blood from the heart to the lungs through the pulmonary artery. The blood that comes back from the lungs is oxygen-rich, and it moves through the pulmonary veins to the left atrium. The left side of the heart pumps oxygen-rich blood to the rest of the body through the aorta.
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- Dr. Aseem Ranjan Srivastava is associated as senior consultant of Paediatric cardiology and Cardiac surgery wing at Artemis Hospital, Gurgaon.
- Dr. Aseem Ranjan Srivastava is trained in Congenital Cardiac Surgery at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (2012-13) and The Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC (2011-12)
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