Aortic arch replacement in an elderly patient with dextrocardia and situs inversus.

نویسندگان

  • Mitsuru Sato
  • Kouichi Nagaya
  • Masaharu Hatakeyama
  • Tsunehiro Komatsu
چکیده

Figure 1: CT images. (A) Preoperative three-dimensional CT image. Dextrocardia was observed preoperatively. The branches of the aortic arch were mirror-image reversed. (B) Postoperative three-dimensional CT image. Reconstructed aorta and branches were also mirror-image reversed. RV: right ventricle; Ao: aorta; BCA: brachiocephalic artery; Rt.SCA: right subclavian artery; Rt.CCA: right common carotid artery.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery

دوره 43 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013