Clinical Equivalence of Trubond® and Ethibond® Braided Polyester Sutures for Valvular Prosthesis Fixation During Aortic or Mitral Valve Replacement: A Single-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background Paravalvular leak (PVL) following valve replacement is a serious cardiovascular complication that increases morbidity and mortality. Valve replacement with the interrupted suture technique using polyester suture provides adequate tensile strength and reduces the probability of tissue reaction. This study compared the clinical equivalence of Trubond®(Healthium) and Ethibond® (Ethicon, Johnson & Johnson) braided polyester sutures for valvular prosthesis fixation using interrupted suturing, with respect to the proportion of subjects having PVL after aortic valve (AV) or mitral valve (MV) replacement.

Trans-pulmonary closure of an aorto-pulmonary window in a patient of tetralogy of Fallot: a case report.

We present a case of tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) accompanied by a type II aorto-pulmonary window with severe pulmonary arterial hypertension in a pediatric patient. A successful repair of tetralogy of Fallot with trans-pulmonary patch closure of aorto-pulmonary window was done.

Aorto-left atrial tunnel: a rare entity.

Aorto-left atrial tunnel (ALAT) is a vascular channel that originates from 1 of the sinuses of Valsalva and terminates in the left atrium. The aorto-left atrial tunnel is an extremely rare anomaly. We describe here a case of congenital aorto-left atrial tunnel in a 4-year-old child who underwent successful surgical ligation with good immediate and early results.

Repair of a distal ductal origin of the left pulmonary artery associated with a ventricular septal defect.

Absence of the main branch of the pulmonary artery (PA) with an intracardiac defect is commonly associated with conotruncal cardiac anomaly. It is rarely associated with a ventricular septal defect and PA hypertension. We describe a surgical technique to implant an aberrant left PA to the main PA in a case of a ventricular septal defect, severe pulmonary hypertension, and distal ductal origin of the left PA.

Giant ventricular myxoma obstructing right ventricular outflow tract.

Intracardiac myxoma is predominantly located in the left atrium but their location in the right ventricle is quite unusual. We present a case in which successful excision of the tumor was done through bicameral approach.

Echocardiographic diagnosis and surgical closure of coronary sinus type of atrial septal defect.

Coronary sinus type of atrial septal defect (ASD CS) is a rare cardiac anomaly and is rarely diagnosed by only transthoracic echocardiography prior to surgical operation. We now describe a technique to treat this defect with the aid of two-dimensional echocardiography, which prevents trauma to the conduction system and maintains drainage from the coronary sinus into the right atrium (RA).

Surgical closure of sinus venosus atrial septal defect using a single patch--transcaval repair technique.

Objective: We would like to share our experience of surgical repair of sinus venosus atrial septal defect (ASD) using a simple "transcaval repair technique."

Method: Between January 2007 and October 2010, 48 consecutive patients of sinus venosus ASD underwent surgical repair using transcaval repair technique at our institute. Their ages ranged from 5 to 15 years and male to female ratio was 1.