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Implantation of Total Artificial Heart in Congenital Heart Disease
Published on: July 18, 2014
Partial cardiac autotransplantation with a concomitant mitral valve, aortic valve replacement and tricuspid plasty
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China.
Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
|July 23, 2013
Abstract:
We describe a case with left atrial volume reduction of a giant left atrium, treated successfully by partial cardiac autotransplantation, concomitant mitral and aortic valve replacement, and tricuspid valve plasty. We obtained good results at the 1-year follow-up.
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