A study on pulmonary venous ostia pattern in the left atrium and its clinical applications
Journal Title: National Journal of Clinical Anatomy - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 4
Abstract
Normally four pulmonary veins open into the left atrium. Frequently there are variations in the number of pulmonary veins opening in to the left atrium. Ectopic beats in atrial fibrillation commonly originates from the ostia of the pulmonary veins. The treatment of atrial fibrillation is by radio frequency ablation of the focus of origi n and hence the knowledge of anatomical variation of pulmonary veins is necessary to find the ectopic focus in the origin of atrial fibrillation. Materials and Method : In this study the variation of pulmonary venous ostia pattern in the left atrium was studied in 80 fonnalin fixed adult cadaveric hearts. Results and Conclusion : 63 hearts showed no variation in the pulmonary venous ostia pattern which accounts for 78.75%, rest of the 17 hearts showed variation in the pulmonary venous ostia which accounts for 21.25%, the variation in the number of pulmonary veins was slightly higher for the left side [11.25%] when compared to the right sided variation [10%], the number of hearts which showed bilateral variation was noted in 2 hearts - both showed a single pulmonary vein opening on either side which accounts for 2.5%
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