Clamshell approach and partial cardiopulmonary bypass to repair a right aortic arch aneurysm
Amedeo Spina1, Giuseppe Gatti, Manuel Belgrano
1Cardiovascular Department, Cardiac Surgery Unit, Ospedali Riuniti di Trieste, Ospedale, di Cattinara-Polo Cardiologico, via Valdoni, 34100 Trieste, Italy. amedeospina@hotmail.com
Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine (Hagerstown, Md.)
|January 22, 2010
Abstract:
AB A 27-year-old man with history of ventricular septal defect repair in infancy presented with aneurysm of Edwards type IIIB right aortic arch. Karyotype analysis excluded chromosome 22 anomalies. The lesion was repaired using beating heart partial cardiopulmonary bypass via a clamshell incision. Postoperative course was uneventful.

