Surgical repair of inferior sinus venosus defects: a novel approach with unsnared inferior vena cava

BACKGROUND: Inferior sinus venosus defects (SVD) are very rare and difficult to image from transthoracic echocardiography. Surgical errors were occasionally reported in the repair of inferior SVDs. RESULTS: The authors have operated on 12 inferior SVD patients using bicaval cannulation with unsnared...

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Autores principales: Lin, Fushun, Tang, Hong, Xiao, Xijun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4636830/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26546061
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-015-0359-x
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Inferior sinus venosus defects (SVD) are very rare and difficult to image from transthoracic echocardiography. Surgical errors were occasionally reported in the repair of inferior SVDs. RESULTS: The authors have operated on 12 inferior SVD patients using bicaval cannulation with unsnared inferior vena cava (IVC) and proved successful. CONCLUSION: This technique guaranteed a better exposure of surgical field and facilitate identifying the anatomical relationship between lower part of the SVD and IVC orifice, thus avoiding postoperative IVC - left atrial shunt and other surgical mistakes.

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