TITLE:
Concomitant Aortoplasty with Septal Myectomy for Supravalvar Aortic Stenosis in an Adult
AUTHORS:
Raja Saravanan Elumalai, Kirthivasan Vaidyanathan, Madhu Sankar Nainar, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Govini Balasubramaniam, Susan George
KEYWORDS:
Aortoplasty; Myectomy; Supravalvar Aortic Stenosis
JOURNAL NAME:
World Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery,
Vol.2 No.1,
March
16,
2012
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.