Total endoscopic robotic atrial septal defect repair in a patient with dextrocardia and situs inversus totalis.
Situs inversus with mirror-image of the heart is a rare condition. The present report describes a case of a patient with dextrocardia with situs inversus who had atrial septal defect with multiple holes in the fossa ovalis. The patient underwent total endoscopic atrial septal defect repair using the da Vinci surgical system. This procedure was achieved safely with good clinical and excellent cosmetic results.
Department of General and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan. knj.iino@gmail.com
Kenji
K
Iino
Go
G
Watanabe
Norihiko
N
Ishikawa
Shigeyuki
S
Tomita
D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple; D000328:Adult; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D003914:Dextrocardia / Q000150:complications*; D004724:Endoscopy; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D012371:Robotics; D012857:Situs Inversus / Q000150:complications*; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted; D016896:Treatment Outcome