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Septectomy and biatrial resection for extensive septal lipomatosis
Author(s) -
Sef Davorin,
Turina Marko Ivan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/jocs.12850
Subject(s) - medicine , lipomatosis , body orifice , resection , right atrium , interatrial septum , inferior vena cava , atrial septum , surgery , cardiology , radiology , anatomy , left atrium , atrial fibrillation
We describe the resection for lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum which necessitated complete reconstruction of the right atrium with Dacron grafts connecting the superior and inferior vena cava with the tricuspid orifice, and connection of the pulmonary veins to the mitral orifice with xenopericardium.
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