Management of a Residual VSD 60 Years after One of the First Operations Worldwide

Yasser Yehia Hegazy; Mohamed Koriem; Noha Samir Keshk-Hegazy; Ralf Sodian

doi:10.1055/s-0040-1722734

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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Rep 2021; 10(01): e22-e24
DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1722734

Case Report: Cardiac

Management of a Residual VSD 60 Years after One of the First Operations Worldwide

Yasser Yehia Hegazy

¹Mediclin Herzzentrum Lahr, Herzchirurgie, Lahr, Lahr, Germany

²Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria, Egypt

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Mohamed Koriem

¹Mediclin Herzzentrum Lahr, Herzchirurgie, Lahr, Lahr, Germany

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Noha Samir Keshk-Hegazy

¹Mediclin Herzzentrum Lahr, Herzchirurgie, Lahr, Lahr, Germany

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Ralf Sodian

¹Mediclin Herzzentrum Lahr, Herzchirurgie, Lahr, Lahr, Germany

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Abstract

Background Although surgical closure of ventricular septal defect (VSD) is the gold standard treatment, patients are subjected to deterioration in the following decades. We will present here the first case in literature surviving 60 years after surgical VSD closure with a residual VSD and presenting again for surgery.

Case Description A 68-year-old male patient who underwent surgical closure of a perimembranous VSD in Berlin in 1959. Postoperatively, a small residual VSD was noticed, which was well tolerated over six decades. He presented 60 years postoperatively with severe aortic regurgitation, tricuspid regurgitation, and moderate mitral regurgitation.

Keywords

history - congenital heart diseases - CHD - cardiovascular surgery

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