[A successful surgical treatment of postinfarction posterior ventricular septal defect through a right ventricular...

A 72-year-old man with acute postinfarction ventricular septal defect located posteriorly underwent successful operation through a right ventricular approach. Following cardiac catheterization revealed posterior ventricular septal defect with 82% left to right shunt ratio and coronary angiography showed three vessel disease, emergency operation was performed. The defect was exposed through anterior right ventriculotomy and closed by a teflon patch sutured right side of the interventricular septum, with added bypass grafting to left anterior descending artery. Postoperative course was uneventful and postoperative cardiac catheterization showed no residual shunt with patent bypass graft. He was discharged from our hospital about 2 months after operation.