title: Aortico-ventricular tunnel.
abstract: The authors report on three cases of aorticoventricular tunnel in two children and a baby. Clinical experience confirmed the necessity of earliest diagnosis and treatment, closure of both tunnel-ends, using a patch for the aortic stoma to prevent aortic valve incompetence.
authors.affiliation: Surgical Clinic (Charité), Humboldt-University Berlin, GDR.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Warnke
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bartel
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Blumenthal-Barby
mesh_terms: D001011:Aorta / Q000002:abnormalities*; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000601:surgery*; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000601:surgery*; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant