TITLE:
Sutureless Repair of Left Primary Pulmonary Vein Stenosis—A Case Report
AUTHORS:
Romil D. Sharma, Ankit Jain, Navnita Kisku, Prerit Agarwal, Saket Agarwal
KEYWORDS:
Pulmonary Vein Stenosis, Trans Thoracic Echocardiogram, Atrial Septal Defect
JOURNAL NAME:
World Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery,
Vol.8 No.1,
January
9,
2018
ABSTRACT: Primary left pulmonary vein stenosis is a very rare
condition. It is associated with variable form of Pulmonary artery
hypertension. Catheter based intervention is used to treat the disease like balloon dilation and
stenting but this has high recurrence rate. Here is a case in which we did a
sutureless repair of left pulmonary vein thus decreasing the possibility of
recurrence. Sutureless surgical management is technically superior and less
challenging than direct left atrial wall anastomosis and it provides better
results than catheter based intervention in terms of recurrence of stenosis.