TY - JOUR
T1 - Reconstruction of the left ventricle after previous aneurysmectomy
AU - Koch, Arjun D.
AU - Holman, Eduard R.
AU - Versteegh, Michel I. M.
AU - Klautz, Robert J. M.
AU - Somer, Suresh T.
AU - Bax, Jeroen J.
AU - Dion, Robert A. E.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Two patients recently underwent successful repeat left ventricular anterior aneurysmectomies at our institution. Both patients had undergone a linear repair at first operation. Over time severe heart failure relapsed and echocardiography revealed the recurrence of a voluminous antero-septo-apical aneurysm in both cases, associated with severe mitral regurgitation. Because of still preserved motion of at least three of the basal segments of the left ventricle, a repeat ventriculoplasty according to Dor and a restrictive mitral valve annuloplasty was attempted. At 6-month follow-up, the patients were in the New York Heart Association functional class I and II, respectively. Left ventricular end-diastolic diameters decreased from 73 mm to 67 mm and from 81 mm to 52 mm, and left ventricular end-systolic diameters from 61 mm to 54 mm and from 70 mm to 34 mm. Mitral regurgitation was absent. © 2006 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
AB - Two patients recently underwent successful repeat left ventricular anterior aneurysmectomies at our institution. Both patients had undergone a linear repair at first operation. Over time severe heart failure relapsed and echocardiography revealed the recurrence of a voluminous antero-septo-apical aneurysm in both cases, associated with severe mitral regurgitation. Because of still preserved motion of at least three of the basal segments of the left ventricle, a repeat ventriculoplasty according to Dor and a restrictive mitral valve annuloplasty was attempted. At 6-month follow-up, the patients were in the New York Heart Association functional class I and II, respectively. Left ventricular end-diastolic diameters decreased from 73 mm to 67 mm and from 81 mm to 52 mm, and left ventricular end-systolic diameters from 61 mm to 54 mm and from 70 mm to 34 mm. Mitral regurgitation was absent. © 2006 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
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UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16564303
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.04.082
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.04.082
M3 - Article
C2 - 16564303
SN - 0003-4975
VL - 81
SP - 1495
EP - 1497
JO - Annals of Thoracic Surgery
JF - Annals of Thoracic Surgery
IS - 4
ER -