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DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-924501
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York
Left Ventricular Diverticulum Repair in a Newborn
Publication History
Received April 18, 2006
Publication Date:
06 February 2007 (online)

Abstract
We report on a male newborn requiring repair of a huge left apical diverticulum leading to progressive heart failure and extensive ventricular arrhythmia. At the age of 11 days, a modified Dor procedure using an autologous endoventricular pericardial patch was performed. Postoperatively, a significant reduction of ventricular extrasystole was evident. One year postoperatively, the infant demonstrates a normal cognitive and somatic development without clinical signs of cardiac failure.
Key words
Congenital LV diverticulum - Dor endoventricular repair - congenital dysrhythmia
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