Implications of Left Atrial Size in Rheumatic Mitral Valve Disease Undergoing Mitral Valve Replacement

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and also a lethal injury with 85% of patients dying at the scene of the injury. This is only the second reported case of survival following combined aortic transection and intrapericardial IVC injury. Expedient surgical intervention, the appropriate use of clamshell incision and the ability to rapidly institute cardiopulmonary bypass helped to improve this gentleman’s chance of surviving an invariably fatal injury. doi:10.1016/j.hlc.2011.08.056 2011 Poster Presentation/Panel 18 Valve Sparing Aortic Root Surgery in Bicuspid Aortic Valve: A Systematic Review Hamid Mollahajian1,2,∗, Ratnasari Padang2,3, MohammadRahnavardi 1,2,3, TristanD. Yan1, PaulG. Bannon1,2,3 1 The Baird Institute for Applied Heart and Lung Surgical Research, Sydney, Australia 2 Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 3 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia Introduction: Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is the most common congenital heart disease, often associated with an intrinsic aortopathy resulting in dilatation of ascending aorta and aortic root. Aortic valve sparing operation ( a o v t t T r o