Aortic Valve Replacement in Dextrocardia and Anomalous Origin of the Coronary Artery
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Takanori Kono1,2, Toru Takaseya1, Takahiro Shojima1, Kazuyoshi Takagi1, Koji Akasu1, Hiroyuki Tanaka1 1Department of Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan2Electronic correspondence: kono_takanori@med.kurume-u.ac.jp |
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Situs inversus totalis and anomalous origin of the left coronary artery are rare conditions. An 87-year-old woman with both conditions presented to the authors’ hospital with symptomatic aortic stenosis. She underwent aortic valve replacement (AVR) and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG; saphenous vein graft to the left main trunk). The operator mainly stood on the left side of |
the patient and performed surgery without difficulty. Both, AVR and CABG were successfully performed despite these two rare conditions. Open-heart surgery in a very elderly patient with both of these rare conditions has not previously been reported. The Journal of Heart Valve Disease 2016;25:641-643 |
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