Autotransplantation for Threatened Cardiac Rupture After Left Ventricular Repair.
case_report · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.07.025.
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Abstract
A 26-year-old Japanese woman experienced threatened cardiac rupture after mitral valve replacement and debridement of a left ventricular (LV) posterior wall abscess caused by infectious endocarditis. We performed cardiac autotransplantation using the bicaval technique to allow bench repair of the recurrent abscess. A balloon catheter was inflated in the inferior vena cava to obtain a bloodless anastomotic field. This is the first report of autotransplantation for threatened LV rupture after posterior wall repair.
Medical subject headings
- Endocarditis, Bacterial
- Heart Rupture
- Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation
- Heart Ventricles
- Mitral Valve
- Mitral Valve Insufficiency