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Cardiac autotransplantation was successfully used to treat a patient with a giant left atrium measuring 2200 ml in volume.
Case Report (n=1)
Cardiac autotransplantation can be a successful radical approach for volume reduction in patients with a giant left atrium.
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Autotransplantation feasible in extreme giant left atrium; leaves open need for prospective safety and outcome data before wider consideration.
Giant left atrium is a pathology that causes a lot of different complications, therefore it is very important to perform volume reduction. In some cases left atrium volume reaches a huge size. There are a lot of different methods for left atrium reduction: from wall plication, multicomponent resection followed by restoration integrity of wall to autotransplantation. In spite of the relative simplicity of plications and resection, these methods do not always allow to reduce left atrium to the desired volume. Cardiac autotransplantation is the most radical approach to the correction of giant left atrium which allows reducing left atrium including interatrial septum. The successful result of giant left atrium surgical treatment (volume of left atrium is 2200 ml according to the data of computerized tomography) by the method of autotransplantation is presented in the article.
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Barbukhatti et al. (2008) conducted a case report in Giant left atrium (n=1). Cardiac autotransplantation was evaluated on Successful surgical treatment (volume reduction). Cardiac autotransplantation was successfully used to treat a patient with a giant left atrium measuring 2200 ml in volume.
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