In this procedure, the provider incises the chest wall and performs a complete repair of an anomalous pulmonary venous return, a congenital condition in which all four pulmonary veins fail to reach the left atrium of the heart; instead they drain oxygenated blood from the lungs into the right atrium of the heart. This condition is usually associated with an atrial septal defect, a hole in the tissue wall that separates the right and left atrium.
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