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Closure of Ventricular Septal Rupture through a Left Thoracotomy in a Patient with a History of Esophageal
Gentaro Kato1,2, Tatsuya Ogawa1, Tomohiro Hayashida1
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kagawa Prefectural Central Hospital.
Abstract:
A 73-year-old man who had undergone esophagectomy and retrosternal gastric tube reconstruction for esophageal cancer 8 years prior was transferred to our hospital for the treatment of an acute myocardial infarction. Emergent percutaneous coronary intervention for the left anterior descending artery (#7) was successfully performed. However, echocardiography revealed a ventricular septal rupture (25×27 mm). Seventeen days after admission, the rupture was successfully treated with a double-patch closure via a left anterolateral thoracotomy to avoid a surgical injury to his retrosternal gastric tube. Determining the best surgical approach to the heart is important for safe cardiac surgery in patients after esophageal reconstruction.
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