In my mailbox this week:
“I’m just 30 weeks pregnant and my baby has been diagnosed with TAPVD/R. Please pray that the next scan shows that there is nothing abnormal and that it was a misdiagnosis. We have waited so long for her and can’t even start to believe it.”
I pray that this is a misdiagnosis. [...]
Scimitar Syndrome is a rare congenital heart defect characterized by Partial (PAPVR) or Total (TAPVR) Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return. The syndrome gets its name from the curved shape formed by the pulmonary vein. On a chest radiograph, the vein is said to look like a scimitar, a curved sword originating in the Middle East.
The abnormal [...]
