Aorto-Right Ventricular Tunnel: An Uncommon Problem with a Common Solution

Aorto-ventricular tunnel is a rare congenital malformation, and aorto-right ventricular tunnel (ARVT) is an even less common entity. Here, we report the case of a 3-month-old female who underwent successful surgical closure of ARVT. The origin of the right coronary artery was proximal to the ostium...

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Autores principales: Mitropoulos, Fotios, Kanakis, Meletios A., Chatzis, Andrew, Kiaffas, Maria, Azariades, Prodromos, Tzifa, Aphrodite
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4981233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27525240
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2016.49.4.295
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author Mitropoulos, Fotios
Kanakis, Meletios A.
Chatzis, Andrew
Kiaffas, Maria
Azariades, Prodromos
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description Aorto-ventricular tunnel is a rare congenital malformation, and aorto-right ventricular tunnel (ARVT) is an even less common entity. Here, we report the case of a 3-month-old female who underwent successful surgical closure of ARVT. The origin of the right coronary artery was proximal to the ostium of the tunnel.
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spelling pubmed-49812332016-08-12 Aorto-Right Ventricular Tunnel: An Uncommon Problem with a Common Solution Mitropoulos, Fotios Kanakis, Meletios A. Chatzis, Andrew Kiaffas, Maria Azariades, Prodromos Tzifa, Aphrodite Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Case Report Aorto-ventricular tunnel is a rare congenital malformation, and aorto-right ventricular tunnel (ARVT) is an even less common entity. Here, we report the case of a 3-month-old female who underwent successful surgical closure of ARVT. The origin of the right coronary artery was proximal to the ostium of the tunnel. The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2016-08 2016-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4981233/ /pubmed/27525240 http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2016.49.4.295 Text en Copyright © 2016 by The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. All rights Reserved. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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