Left atrial sarcoma: resection and repair by cardiac autotransplant and in situ pericardial patch
Donald B Doty1, John R Doty, Bruce B Reid
1Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. donald.doty@ihc.com
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|September 26, 2006
Abstract:
This report demonstrates the method of resection of a left atrial tumor involving the right superior pulmonary vein. The unique features are use of adjacent pericardium as an in situ patch to reconstruct the left atrium when there is no margin of left atrium remaining on the pulmonary veins and cardiac autotransplantation.


