Diagnosis and surgical treatment of adult aortico-right ventricular tunnel.
case_report · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.10.073.
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Abstract
Aortico-right ventricular tunnel (ARVT) was successfully corrected in a 32-year-old patient. The diagnosis was preoperatively suspected on the basis of Doppler echocardiography and it was confirmed by a three-dimensional computed tomographic scan. The ARVT originated independently above the right coronary sinus. Surgical closure with 5-0 polypropylene in the middle of the tunnel under modest hypothermia was successfully performed. Follow-up was found to be satisfactory 3 months later.
Medical subject headings
- Abnormalities, Multiple
- Aorta
- Heart Ventricles