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Severe Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis in an Octogenarian with Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries.

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SUBMITTER: Dewaswala N

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10954668 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Severe Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis in an Octogenarian with Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries.

Dewaswala Nakeya N Bolanos Michael David MD Bhopalwala Huzefa H Reda Hassan H Leventhal Andrew A

CASE (Philadelphia, Pa.) 20240308 3Part A

PMID: 38524976

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Project description:BackgroundAdults with unoperated congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries are rare but form a distinct group among adults with congenital heart disease. Patients with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries often have one or more associated cardiac anomalies that dictate the need for, and timing of, surgical intervention in childhood. However, in a proportion of patients, the hemodynamics does not require surgical attention during childhood, and, in some patients, a correct diagnosis is not established until adulthood. Here we report an adult case of unoperated congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries with a large ventricular septal defect and probable pulmonary arterial hypertension.Case presentationOur patient was a 46-year-old Korean man. Transthoracic echocardiography and cardiac catheterization demonstrated hemodynamically balanced ventricles with a non-regurgitant systemic atrioventricular valve, normal pulmonary arterial pressure, and a reasonable difference between the oxygen saturation values of the aorta and pulmonary trunk, even with the presence of a large ventricular septal defect. Further morphological assessments using cardiac computed tomography and three-dimensional modeling/printing of his heart revealed that the mitral valve was straddling over the posteriorly positioned ventricular septal defect, which could explain the functional and anatomical subvalvular pulmonary stenosis and a small amount of shunt flow through the large ventricular septal defect. We interpreted this combination of cardiac defects as able to sustain his stable cardiac function. Thus, we decided to maintain his unoperated status.ConclusionA detailed anatomical understanding based on transthoracic echocardiography, cardiac computed tomography, and three-dimensional printing can justify a decision to not operate in cases of congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries with hemodynamically balanced pulmonary stenosis and a ventricular septal defect, as observed in the present case.

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Severe Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis in an Octogenarian with Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries.

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Severe Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis in an Octogenarian with Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries.

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