Valved Conduit Attached to Left Ventricular Outflow Tract for Valve Detachment in Behçet’s Disease Liang-Wan Chen, MD, Xi-Jie Wu, MD, Hua Cao, MD, Xiao-Fu Dai, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 103, Issue 3, Pages e301-e303 (March 2017) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.09.063 Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 (A) With a Foley catheter guidewire, both coronary buttons were constructed, and the native root including the annulus was excised. (B) The valve ring of the valved conduit was sutured to the left ventricular outflow tract with a continuous over-and-over 3-0 Prolene suture. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 103, e301-e303DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.09.063) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 (A) Histologic examination of the left ventricular outflow tract myocardium did not reveal characteristic inflammatory changes. (B) Histologic examinations of the ascending aortic walls indicated severe medial lymphocyte infiltration and myxoid degeneration in the adventitia. (Hematoxylin and eosin, ×40.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 103, e301-e303DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.09.063) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Follow-up computed tomographic view showing neither suture detachment nor pseudoaneurysm. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 103, e301-e303DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.09.063) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions