Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection – TAPVC Surgery
The blood in TAPVC does not follow the usual path from the lungs into the heart and out of the body. Rather, the lung veins bind to the heart in odd ways and this issue ensures that oxygenated blood reaches the wrong chamber or leaks into it.
This defect must be surgically repaired in early infancy. At the time of open-heart surgery, the pulmonary veins are reconnected to the left atrium and the atrial septal defect is closed.
