title: Robot-Assisted Partial Atrioventricular Canal Defect Repair and Cryo-Maze Procedure.
abstract: Atrial septal defect is one of the most common congenital heart anomalies in adults. Patients with partial atrioventricular canal defects, previously known as ostium primum atrial septal defect, usually present at an early age, and only a few reach adulthood without surgical correction. Herein, we describe a young woman who presented with an ostium primum defect and severe symptomatic mitral and tricuspid regurgitation with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. A complex repair was successfully done through a left atrial approach using robot-assistance.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiac Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, East Carolina Heart Institute at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. Electronic address: kmanda12@jhmi.edu.
authors.forename: Kaushik
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mandal
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, East Carolina Heart Institute at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Aseem R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Srivastava
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, East Carolina Heart Institute at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.
authors.forename: L Wiley
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Nifong
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, East Carolina Heart Institute at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.
authors.forename: W Randolph
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Chitwood
mesh_terms: D055011:Ablation Techniques; D000328:Adult; D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D003452:Cryosurgery; D005260:Female; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D065287:Robotic Surgical Procedures