Is an off-pump tourniquet snare technique under live transoesophageal echocardiography a feasible alternative to resection on cardiopulmonary bypass for congenital left atrial appendage aneurysm?
An off-pump tourniquet snare technique under live TEE may offer a novel, less invasive alternative to cardiopulmonary bypass for managing congenital left atrial appendage aneurysms.
Left atrial appendage aneurysm is an extremely rare anomaly and as such has been rarely imaged or seen intraoperatively with very little accumulated management experience. The available scant published literature stresses resection on cardiopulmonary bypass as the safest and by far the most commonly applied technique. We suggest a novel alternative imaging-guided management utilising an off-pump tourniquet snare technique under live transoesophageal echocardiography.
DiBardino et al. (Thu,) studied this question.