Repair of aortico-right ventricular tunnel.
Aortico-right ventricular tunnel was successfully corrected in a 15-month-old child. Both the aortic and right ventricular openings were closed with pledgeted sutures. The coronary artery anatomy was normal. At 12-month follow-up the patient is in excellent clinical condition. Before surgical intervention for aortico-right ventricular tunnel is undertaken, every effort should be made to diagnose the coronary artery anatomy, because failure to do so in the case of aberrant origin of a coronary artery may prevent successful surgical correction.
van Son
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Department of Cardiac Surgery, Herzzentrum, University of Leipzig, Germany.
Hambsch
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J
Schneider
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Mohr
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FW
D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012850:Sinus of Valsalva / Q000002:abnormalities