Surgical management of a giant atrial septal aneurysm

Motoyuki Kumagai; Junichiro Nishizawa; Makoto Takehara; Eiji Shinoda; Kenji Minatoya

doi:10.1002/ccr3.4125

Surgical management of a giant atrial septal aneurysm

Clin Case Rep. 2021 May 5;9(5):e04125. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.4125. eCollection 2021 May.

Authors

Motoyuki Kumagai^{1

2}, Junichiro Nishizawa², Makoto Takehara², Eiji Shinoda³, Kenji Minatoya¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery Graduate School of Medicine Kyoto University Kyoto Japan.
² Department of Cardiovascular Surgery Hamamatsu Rosai Hospital Hamamatsu Japan.
³ Department of Cardiology Hamamatsu Rosai Hospital Hamamatsu Japan.

Abstract

We experienced a very rare case of surgical management of a giant atrial septal aneurysm. It is an interesting case and is supported by preoperative, intraoperative, and pathology images.

Keywords: atrial septal aneurysm; atrial tachycardia; patent foramen ovale; thrombus.

Publication types

Case Reports