Minimally invasive video-assisted surgery for iatrogenic aortic root-to-right atrium fistula after incomplete percutaneous occlusion of patent foramen ovale: Case report and review of the literature

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-78

  Raffa, Giuseppe M ^a,d   Pellegrini, Carlo ^a   Lentini, Salvatore ^b   Perrotta, Sossio ^b   Tancredi, Fabrizio ^b   Gaeta, Roberto ^b   Viganò, Mario ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^d NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ATRESIA; BYPASS SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL ANNULOPLASTY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRICUSPID ANNULOPLASTY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ADULT; AORTA; FEMALE; FISTULA; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR FISTULA; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY;

EID: 39649120113     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2007.00483.x     Document Type: Article

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