[A Case of Successful Surgery for Adult Partial Atrioventricular Septal Defect]

We report a case of a 55-year-old male who had been diagnosed with mitral regurgitation and atrial septal defect 5 years earlier. He was referred to our institution because of worsening of mitral regurgitation accompanied by exertional dyspnea. As an echocardiography showed atrioventricular valve regurgitation and ostium primum atrial septal defect, but without ventricular septal defect, he was diagnosed as having partial atrioventricular septal defect (pAVSD). An operation was performed through median sternotomy. The anterior atrioventricular leaflet had a cleft and thickening with calcification. Suturing the cleft could not control the regurgitation. Incomplete coaptation was seen at the edge of the anastomosis site of the cleft, where the severe calcification had been identified. A rough zone including a part of the chordae tendineae was sutured in order to compensate for the gap. The atrioventricular septal defect was closed with an autologous pericardial patch. He was discharged uneventfully on the 24th postoperative day and has been followed up without complications for 1.5 years.