Diagnosis and surgical treatment of adult aortico-right ventricular tunnel.
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.
Lin
Bai-song
BS
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, the People's Republic of China.
Zhang
Xiu-he
XH
Jiang
Yi-zhong
YZ
Zhang
Bai-min
BM
Gao
Dongmei
D
Song
Jun
J
D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D001011:Aorta / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male