Concomitant Aortoplasty with Septal Myectomy for Supravalvar Aortic Stenosis in an Adult

Raja Saravanan Elumalai, Kirthivasan Vaidyanathan, Madhu Sankar Nainar, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Govini Balasubramaniam, Susan George

Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology, Global Hospital and Health City, Perumbakkam, India.
Department of Cardiology, Global Hospital and Health City, Perumbakkam, India.
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Global Hospital and Health City, Perumbakkam, India.

DOI: 10.4236/wjcs.2012.21002                

Abstract

Survival of patients with severe congenital aortic stenosis beyond third decade is uncommon. This report describes a 31 year old patient who underwent successful aortoplasty and in addition septal myectomy for complete relief of left ventricular outflow obstruction.

Keywords

Aortoplasty; Myectomy; Supravalvar Aortic Stenosis

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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