title: Diagnosis and surgical treatment of adult aortico-right ventricular tunnel.
abstract: Aortico-right ventricular tunnel (ARVT) was successfully corrected in a 32-year-old patient. The diagnosis was preoperatively suspected on the basis of Doppler echocardiography and it was confirmed by a three-dimensional computed tomographic scan. The ARVT originated independently above the right coronary sinus. Surgical closure with 5-0 polypropylene in the middle of the tunnel under modest hypothermia was successfully performed. Follow-up was found to be satisfactory 3 months later.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, the People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Bai-song
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Xiu-he
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yi-zhong
authors.initials: YZ
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Bai-min
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Dongmei
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Song
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D001011:Aorta / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male