title: Reconstruction of the right heart in an elderly woman with Ebstein's anomaly and severe heart failure.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan.
authors.forename: Takuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakayama
authors.forename: Miki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Asano
authors.forename: Kozo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: Norikazu
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nomura
authors.forename: Takayuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mizuno
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mishima
mesh_terms: 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*