title: Midterm results of left coronary artery reimplantation through the transverse sinus of the pericardium in adult Bland-White-Garland syndrome.
abstract: The anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery - known as Bland-White-Garland syndrome - is a rare congenital malformation that affects 1 in 300,000 live births. Most patients die in infancy without any surgical treatment. Some patients who survive past childhood often have varying symptoms such as myocardial ischemia, impaired left ventricular function, mitral regurgitation, and progressive heart failure, depending on the development collateral circulation. In the present report, we describe a procedure wherein the left coronary artery ostium was translocated through the transverse sinus of the pericardium in a 43-year-old mother with Bland-White-Garland syndrome and concomitant mitral regurgitation and report on the associated midterm results.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Medical Center East, 2-1-10, Nishiogu, Arakawa-ku, 116-8567, Tokyo, Japan. kataokago@yahoo.co.jp.
authors.forename: Go
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kataoka
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Medical Center East, 2-1-10, Nishiogu, Arakawa-ku, 116-8567, Tokyo, Japan. nakanoca@dnh.twmu.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Kiyoharu
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakano
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Medical Center East, 2-1-10, Nishiogu, Arakawa-ku, 116-8567, Tokyo, Japan. rasanoca@dnh.twmu.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Ryota
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Asano
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Medical Center East, 2-1-10, Nishiogu, Arakawa-ku, 116-8567, Tokyo, Japan. asatoca@dnh.twmu.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Atsuhiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Medical Center East, 2-1-10, Nishiogu, Arakawa-ku, 116-8567, Tokyo, Japan. kodca@dnh.twmu.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Kojiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kodera
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Medical Center East, 2-1-10, Nishiogu, Arakawa-ku, 116-8567, Tokyo, Japan. tatsuca@dnh.twmu.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Wataru
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tatsuishi
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yatsu Hoken Hospital, Chiba, Japan. sdo1212@yahoo.co.jp.
authors.forename: Shinji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sudo
keywords: Adult; Bland-White-Garland syndrome; Coronary artery disease