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FIGURE 1 -Left sided pulmonary edema and cardiomegaly.

We report a case of totally anomalous pulmonary venous connection in which the two pulmonary veins from the left lung joined to form a common vein which then passed across the midline into a hypoplastic right lung and, after receiving small veins from the right lung, passed inferiorly, exiting the lung below the hilum as a “scimitar” vein and terminating in the inferior caval vein. A separate pulmonary vein from the right lung passed inferiorly independently and joined the “scimitar” vein before it entered the inferior caval vein. There was an associated hypoplastic left heart syndrome.