I was diagnosed with this congenital heart defect about 10 years, and I still don’t know what it is exactly. I know how to explain it, like a doctor would, but I don’t fully understand it.
“Normal connection of the left sided superior intrapulmonary veins. Conventional drainage of the right inferior pulmonary vein. Drainage of the right superior pulmonary vein and the right middle lobe pulmonary vein (via the right superior pulmonary vein) into the SVC.” – what it says on my most recent mri, don’t understand if it’s 1 or 2 veins?
Please dumb it down for me!
In: Biology
Basically, you’ve got some miswired plumbing.
Normally the veins containing oxygen rich blood from your lungs all connect to the left atrium on your heart. That blood gets pumped back out via the aorta to your body.
In your case, some of the veins from your right lung have accidentally connected themselves to the superior vena cava (SVC). The SVC is where “used” blood without oxygen is returned from the body, drained into the right heart atrium, and then pumped into your lungs to be oxygenated.
Because of this incorrect plumbing, very little of the oxygen that would be normally absorbed by the section(s) of the lungs that are misconduct we is actually getting used.
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