Surgical treatment of ventricular septal perforation with right ventricular infarction.
A 71-year-old woman underwent an emergency surgery for ventricular septal perforation together with right ventricular infarction. The perforation of the anterior septum was closed using. Dacron patch combined with a little larger bovine pericardium, the surplus of which was stitched in the surrounding viable muscle. This procedure was performed only through the infarct of the right ventricle. She has been doing well with no residual shunt and lives a normal life now.
Sugimoto
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Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hyogo Brain and Heart Center at Himeji, Japan.
Ogawa
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K
Asada
T
T
Mukohara
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N
Higami
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Obo
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H
Kawamura
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T
D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001705:Bioprosthesis; D002417:Cattle; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D010496:Pericardium / Q000637:transplantation; D011093:Polyethylene Terephthalates; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D013997:Time Factors; D018658:Ventricular Septal Rupture / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*
D011093:Polyethylene Terephthalates