Journal of Chest Surgery

The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (대한심장혈관흉부외과학회)
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Indentation in the Right Ventricle by an Incomplete Pericardium on 3-Dimensional Reconstructed Computed Tomography

  • Kim, Hak Ju (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Children's Hospital) ;
  • Kwak, Jae Gun (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Children's Hospital)
  • Received : 2016.09.19
  • Accepted : 2016.12.13
  • Published : 2017.08.05
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Abstract

We report the case of a 17-year-old girl who presented with an indentation in the right ventricle caused by an incomplete pericardium on preoperative 3-dimensional reconstructed computed tomography. She was to undergo surgery for a partial atrioventricular septal defect and secundum atrial septal defect. Preoperative electrocardiography revealed occasional premature ventricular beats. We found the absence of the left side of the pericardium intraoperatively, and this absence caused strangulation of the diaphragmatic surface of the right ventricle. After correcting the lesion, the patient's rhythm disturbances improved.

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