Three patients with the scimitar syndrome represented an incidence at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre of one per cent of patients who underwent cardiac catheterization. In one of the patients the anomalous pulmonary venous return and the pulmonary hypoplasia was on the left. The syndrome is usually benign. Its recognition may save the patient from unnecessary additional diagnostic procedures.
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