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A successful surgical repair of mitral stenosis and regurgitation with pulmonary arteriovenous fistula

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The patient was a 74-year-old man who was complained cyanosis and shortness of breath on exertion. He had undergone open mitral commissurotomy for mitral stenosis 19 years previously. He was diagnosed with mitral stenosis and regurgitation combined with pulmonary arteriovenous fistula (PAVF). Moderate pulmonary hypertension was also observed. It appeared that the PAVF was located where one-step operation with open heart surgery was anatomically feasible, and that his condition would be improved by resection of the fistula and decreasing overload of left atrium by mitral valve replacement. One-step operation including mitral valve replacement and tricuspid annuloplasty with enuculation of the PAVF was therefore performed. The patient has done well postoperatively, and postoperative cardiac catheterization revealed no increase in pulmonary arterial pressure.

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  1. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

    Takehiro Inoue, Nobuo Wakaki & Hidetaka Oku

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Inoue, T., Wakaki, N. & Oku, H. A successful surgical repair of mitral stenosis and regurgitation with pulmonary arteriovenous fistula. Jpn J Thorac Caridovasc Surg 46, 757–761 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03217816

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