Percutaneous repair of sinus venosus ASD: the end of congenital cardiac surgery?

Sinus venosus ASD.

A 32-year-old man presented at the cardiology department for a routine check-up. He had no symptoms, particularly no cardio logical symptoms. Clinical examination and ECG revealed no abnormalities. Transthoracic echocardiography showed a mild dilatation of the right heart. Further functional evaluation of the right heart was performed with MRI to evaluate the presence of a left to right shunt a...

Robotically assisted repair of sinus venosus defect.

Percutaneous repair of sinus venosus defect with anomalous pulmonary venous return.

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Is routine preoperative cardiac catheterization necessary before repair of secundum and sinus venosus atrial septal defects?

Between January 1976 and July 1983, 217 patients with atrial septal defect underwent surgical repair at Children's Hospital. Thirty with a primum atrial septal defect and 26 who underwent cardiac catheterization elsewhere before being seen were excluded from analysis. Of the 161 remaining patients, 52 (31%) underwent preoperative cardiac catheterization, 38 because the physical examination was ...

Pulmonary capillary haemangiomatosis coexistence with sinus venosus ASD: morphometric analysis and literature review.

A 24 yr old white female presented with dyspnoea, orthopnoea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea, cough and fatigue. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a sinus venosus atrial septal defect (ASD). Right heart catheterization confirmed severe pulmonary hypertension (80/37 mmHg). A chest radiograph showed enlarged pulmonary arteries with peripheral pruning. Surgical repair of the ASD and lung biop...