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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2003;23:650-651
© 2003 Elsevier Science NL

Letter to the Editor

Dissecting aneurysms of the interventricular septum

Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Cardiothoracic Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029, India

Received 30 November 2002; accepted 16 December 2002.

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e-mail: shivchoudhary@hotmail.com

Key Words: Interventricular septal aneurysm • Aneurysm of sinus of Valsalva • Heart block • Aortic regurgitation

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Wu and colleagues have presented an extensive report [1] on this extremely rare entity. Out of six patients, they have resected out the aneurysm sac in four patients, and the resultant defect has been closed with a Dacron patch. Since 1987, we have operated on 14 such patients and part of experience has been published earlier [2]. In our experience, the aneurysm always opened in the right coronary sinus. The aneurysm opening ranged from 4 mm to 2 cm in diameter. In five patients, the aneurysm wall was calcified, and in two, the aneurysm . . . [Full Text of this Article]