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Cox-Maze IV Procedure Concomitant with Valvular Surgery In Situs Inversus Dextrocardia: A Single-Center Experience in China
Published on: February 11, 2022
[Symptomatic aorto-iliac aneurysm and situs viscerum inversus: case report]
Domenico Baccellieri1, Francesco Mirenda, Tommaso Mandolfino
1Unità Operativa Complessa di Chirurgia Vascolare Cattedra e Scuola di Specializzazione in Chirurgia Vascolare Università degli Studi di Messina.
Abstract:
We report a case of infrarenal symptomatic aorto-iliac aneurysm in a patient with acute abdominal pain. The patient was admitted to the emergency care unit for abdominal pain and CT scans showing an infrarenal aorto-iliac aneurysm in a situs viscerum inversus (SVI) totalis syndrome. The patient underwent open aneurysm repair with an aorto-iliac bifurcated graft. This case shows that situs viscerum inversus cannot be considered a technical problem for the surgical treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm.
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