Coronary sinus approach to repair an intracardiac ventricular pseudoaneurysm
Hong-Wei Guo1, Jian-Ping Xu, Yi Chang
1Department of Surgery, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|November 24, 2012
Abstract:
A coronary sinus approach using a Gore-Tex Patch was used to repair an intracardiac left ventricular pseudoaneurysm after a previous bioprosthetic mitral valve replacement. At follow-up six months after surgery, echocardiography and a computed tomographic scan revealed almost complete obliteration of the pseudoaneurysm cavity.


