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Off-pump snare technique for congenital left atrial appendage aneurysm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2013

Daniel J. DiBardino ,
Avichal Aggarwal  and
Jarrod D. Knudson
Daniel J. DiBardino*
Affiliation:
Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
Avichal Aggarwal
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Cardiology Children's Heart Center, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
Jarrod D. Knudson
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Cardiology Children's Heart Center, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
*
Correspondence to: D. J. DiBardino, MD, Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS 39216, United States of America. Tel: 601-984-5489; Fax: 601-984-5872; E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Left atrial appendage aneurysm is an extremely rare anomaly and as such has been rarely imaged or seen intraoperatively with very little accumulated management experience. The available scant published literature stresses resection on cardiopulmonary bypass as the safest and by far the most commonly applied technique. We suggest a novel alternative imaging-guided management utilising an off-pump tourniquet snare technique under live transoesophageal echocardiography.

Keywords

congenital heart diseasecardiac aneurysmatrial appendage aneurysm
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , June 2014 , pp. 555 - 558
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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