Publications by authors named "Alain Batisse"
The right superior vena cava draining into the left atrium is a rare malformation causing cyanosis and clubbing in patients in whom no other signs of congenital heart defect are present. Diagnosis may be difficult as cyanosis may be mild and the anomaly is not always easily detectable by echocardiography. For this reason we report a 13-month-old male in whom we confirmed the clinical and echocardiographic suspicion of anomalous drainage of the right superior vena cava using multidetector CT.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: Outcome of foetuses diagnosed with tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) or pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect (PA-VSD) and the reliability of foetal echocardiography to predict post-natal surgical outcome.
Methods And Results: Outcome of 218 foetuses having been diagnosed with TOF (n = 153) or PA-VSD (n = 65) was reviewed. Abnormal karyotyping, 22q11 deletion, and extracardiac anomalies were found, respectively, in 11, 18, and 46%.
Obstructed right pulmonary venous drainage and ipsilateral lung hypoplasia.
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg
May 2004
A case of right lung hypoplasia and dyspnea, presented at our institution for cardiac evaluation, is described. Clinical evaluation and instrumental findings of normally connected but completely obstructed right pulmonary venous drainage have led us to diagnose an exceptional variant of subtotal cor triatriatum. Differential diagnosis was mainly carried out between pulmonary venous anomalies and drainage obstructions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: If robotic surgery is to be widely used, the risks must be equivalent to those of standard techniques. This study analyzes the feasibility, safety, and efficiency of a robotically assisted technique for patent ductus arteriosus closure and compares the results with those of the videothoracoscopic technique.
Methods: During 2000, 56 children weighing 2.