Prenatal Diagnosis of Interrupted Inferior Vena Cava with Azygos Continuation: A Case Report
Martina Billeci, Gianfranco Morreale, Ferdinando Antonio Gulino, Francesco Giuseppe Cannone · 2025
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Description
Four authors report a case in two thousand twenty-five of a vein variant found before birth. The inferior vena cava is the large vein that returns blood from the lower body to the heart. In this variant the vein is interrupted, and blood detours through a smaller vein called the azygos.
The variant was spotted on a routine second-trimester scan and confirmed by a detailed ultrasound of the fetal heart. The baby was born without problems. The authors review how to diagnose the variant and what it can mean over a lifetime. They stress telling isolated cases apart from those paired with other birth defects.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Martina Billeci, Gianfranco Morreale, Ferdinando Antonio Gulino, Francesco Giuseppe Cannone |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 7 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |