Reconstruction of the right heart in an elderly woman with Ebstein's anomaly and severe heart failure.
We report the case of a 53-year-old woman with Ebstein's anomaly and intractable heart failure who had undergone only tricuspid valve replacement 30 years earlier. She was treated conservatively for 1 month; however, she was placed in the New York Heart Association functional class IV. Therefore, we operated on her with the objective of improving her quality of life and cardiac function. One-and-a-half repair and a second tricuspid valve replacement with right ventriculoplasty were quite effective in ameliorating her critical condition.
Nakayama
Takuya
T
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan.
Asano
Miki
M
Matsumoto
Kozo
K
Nomura
Norikazu
N
Saito
Takayuki
T
Mizuno
Akihiro
A
Mishima
Akira
A
D004437:Ebstein Anomaly / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D014261:Tricuspid Valve / Q000601:surgery*