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Title: Transaortic Fallot repair in a grown-up patient: advantages in a situs inversus setting.
Authors: Gil-Jaurena, Juan-Miguel
Cano, Joaquín
Cuenca, Victorio
metadata.dc.contributor.authoraffiliation: [Gil-Jaurena,JM] Cardiac Surgery, Hospital Carlos Haya, Málaga, Spain. [Cano,J; Cuenca,V] Pediatric Cardiology, Grown up Congenital Heart Unit, Hospital Carlos Haya, Málaga, Spain
Keywords: Fallot;Grown-up;aortic repair;Situs inversus;Cateterismo cardíaco;Estudios de seguimiento;Tetralogía de Fallot;Cateterismo cardíaco
metadata.dc.subject.mesh: Medical Subject Headings::Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Surgical Procedures, Operative::Thoracic Surgical Procedures::Cardiac Surgical Procedures
Medical Subject Headings::Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Investigative Techniques::Epidemiologic Methods::Epidemiologic Study Characteristics as Topic::Epidemiologic Studies::Cohort Studies::Longitudinal Studies::Follow-Up Studies
Medical Subject Headings::Organisms::Eukaryota::Animals::Chordata::Vertebrates::Mammals::Primates::Haplorhini::Catarrhini::Hominidae::Humans
Medical Subject Headings::Check Tags::Male
Medical Subject Headings::Named Groups::Persons::Age Groups::Adult::Middle Aged
Medical Subject Headings::Diseases::Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities::Congenital Abnormalities::Situs Inversus
Medical Subject Headings::Diseases::Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities::Congenital Abnormalities::Cardiovascular Abnormalities::Heart Defects, Congenital::Tetralogy of Fallot
Medical Subject Headings::Anatomy::Cardiovascular System::Heart::Heart Valves::Aortic Valve
Medical Subject Headings::Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Therapeutics::Catheterization::Heart Catheterization
Issue Date: 6-Oct-2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Citation: Gil-Jaurena JM, Cano J, Cuenca V. Transaortic Fallot repair in a grown-up patient: advantages in a situs inversus setting. Cardiol Young. 2012 ; 22(5):603-5
Abstract: We present the case studies of two adult patients with tetralogy of Fallot who were scheduled for surgery. After addressing the right ventricular outflow tract obstruction, the aorta was opened and the ventricular septal defect was approached in a straightforward manner as it was located just under the overriding aortic valve. The second patient presented with was a situs inversus, dextroapex Fallot. In this setting, the aortic approach simplified the repair expeditiously. After 2 years, both patients are in New York Heart Association class I, with no residual ventricular septal defect, no aortic regurgitation, and complete relief of right ventricular outflow tract obstruction.
Description: Case Reports; Journal Article;
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10668/1325
metadata.dc.relation.publisherversion: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8692893
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: 10.1017/S1047951112000030
ISSN: 1467-1107 (Online)
1047-9511 (Print)
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