page_title: Scimitar syndrome
section_title: Diagnosis
hierarchical_section_title: Scimitar syndrome / Diagnosis
caption_attribution_description: English: Chest X-ray of a five-year-old girl with wikipedia:Scimitar syndrome. The heart (blue) is shifted into the right half of the chest, and the anomalous pulmonary venous return (red) has a shape reminiscint of a wikipedia:Scimitar.
context_page_description: Scimitar syndrome, or congenital pulmonary venolobar syndrome, is a rare congenital heart defect characterized by anomalous venous return from the right lung. This anomalous pulmonary venous return can be either partial or total. The syndrome associated with PAPVR is more commonly known as Scimitar syndrome after the curvilinear pattern created on a chest radiograph by the pulmonary veins that drain to the inferior vena cava. This radiographic density often has the shape of a scimitar, a type of curved sword. The syndrome was first described by Catherine Neill in 1960.
context_section_description: The diagnosis is made by transthoracic or transesophageal echocardiography, angiography, and more recently by CT angiography or MR Angiography.
caption: Chest x-ray of a five-year-old girl with Scimitar syndrome.  The heart (blue outline) is shifted into the right half of the chest, and the anomalous pulmonary venous return (red) has a shape reminiscent of a Scimitar.
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