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The imaging revealed multiple congenital vascular anomalies, including an anomalous left hepatic vein draining directly into the right atrium, a persistent left cranial vena cava, an abdominal arteriovenous fistula, and a left phrenicoabdominal vein variant associated with a suspected peritoneopericardial diaphragmatic hernia. To the authors\u2019 knowledge, this is the first veterinary report describing direct drainage of the left hepatic vein into the right atrium in a cat. 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