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Surgical treatment with infarction exclusion technique and postoperative percutaneous cardiopulmonary support for a patient with ventricular septal perforation —A case report—

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A 76-year-old woman was referred to our hospital because of postinfarction ventricular septal perforation (VSP). VSP occurred twelve days after acute myocardial infarction and resulted in interventricular shunt with Qp/Qs of 4.8. Because she suffered from pulmonary edema and oligouria, she underwent emergent surgical treatment after application of the intraaortic balloon pump. The infarction involved whole of right ventricle and the inferoposterior wall of left ventricle, and the location of the perforation was infero-septum with the size of 10 × 6 mm. A bovine pericardial patch was tailored in a triangular shape of approximately 7 × 7 × 5 cm. The base of the patch was sutured to the fibrous annulus of the mitral valve and medial margin of the patch was sewn to healthy septal endocardium. And the lateral side of the patch was sutured to the posterior wall of the left ventricle. Because of difficulty in weaning of the cardiopulmonary bypass, a percutaneous cardiopulmonary support system (PCPS) was inserted via femoral artery and vein with a flow support of 2.0 L/min. After 4 days support of PCPS, improvement of right ventricular function was detected by echocardiogram and PCPS was removed. While PCPS support, low dose heparin to maintain ACT level around 150 seconds was continuously administered. Any complication including bleeding and thrombosis was not remarkable. The patient was discharged on the 53th postoperative day, and is now doing well.

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  1. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Omiya Medical Center, Jichi Medical School, Saitama, Japan

    Atsushi Yamaguchi, Hideo Adachi, Junichi Tsuboi, Hitoshi Kamio, Masahiko Okada & Takashi Ino

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Yamaguchi, A., Adachi, H., Tsuboi, J. et al. Surgical treatment with infarction exclusion technique and postoperative percutaneous cardiopulmonary support for a patient with ventricular septal perforation —A case report—. Jpn J Thorac Caridovasc Surg 46, 307–311 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03217747

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