A retrospective review in 50 patients with subaortic stenosis and intact ventricular septum: 5-year surgical experience.

We reviewed the surgical outcomes in adults and children with subaortic stenosis and intact ventricular septum in the current era. The case notes of 50 patients were reviewed for retrospective evaluation of preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative data. Data of primary operations during the period 2000-2005 were compared with data from patients who had re-do surgery during the same period.

Geometry of the left ventricular outflow tract in fixed subaortic stenosis and intact ventricular septum: an echocardiographic study in children and adults.

Objective: We compared the echocardiographic geometry of the preoperative and postoperative left ventricular outflow tract in children and adults with isolated fixed subaortic stenosis with age- and weight-matched controls to elucidate whether the geometry can be modified when surgical intervention is performed at a younger age.

Methods: The mitral-aortic valve distance, aortic valve diameter, aorto-left ventricular septal angle, degree of aortic valve dextroposition, aortic valve-subaortic stenosis distance, width of left ventricular outflow tract, left ventricle wall thickness, and septal thickness were determined preoperatively and postoperatively in 21 patients and 21 controls. The measurements were indexed to body surface area.

Transoesophageal echocardiogram identifying the source of endoleak after combined open/endovascular repair of a type 3 thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm.

Open repair of thoracic aortic aneurysms is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The introduction of endovascular repair has reduced both the morbidity and mortality. However, endovascular stent repair can be complicated by endoleaks.