Surgical correction of congenital heart disease at 76 years of age

Maninder Sidhu; Pankaj Goel; Arun K Chopra; Suruchi Chopra; Shailpreet Sidhu

doi:10.1111/j.1540-8191.2010.01123.x

Surgical correction of congenital heart disease at 76 years of age

J Card Surg. 2010 Nov;25(6):672-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2010.01123.x. Epub 2010 Sep 29.

Authors

Maninder Sidhu¹, Pankaj Goel, Arun K Chopra, Suruchi Chopra, Shailpreet Sidhu

Affiliation

¹ Department of Cardiology, Fortis-Escorts Heart and Superspeciality Institute, Amritsar, Punjab, India. maninder1976@hotmail.com

PMID: 20880082
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2010.01123.x

Abstract

The management of adult congenital heart disease is challenging and poses specific problems. We report a patient with ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis who underwent successful repair and coronary artery bypass grafting at the age of 76 years.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Cardiac Surgical Procedures
Coronary Artery Bypass
Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / complications
Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / diagnosis
Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / surgery*
Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation
Heart Ventricles / surgery*
Humans
Male
Pulmonary Subvalvular Stenosis / complications
Pulmonary Subvalvular Stenosis / diagnosis
Pulmonary Subvalvular Stenosis / surgery*
Pulmonary Valve / surgery
Treatment Outcome