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CASE REPORT article
Front. Cardiovasc. Med.
Sec. Pediatric Cardiology
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2025.1529485
Atrial Baffles of Pulmonary and Systemic Veins for Anatomic and Physiologic Repair of Left Atrial Isomerism Heterotaxy: Pre-and Post-Operative 3-Dimensional Reconstructions of Two Mirror-Image Pediatric Hearts
Provisionally accepted- 1 UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, United States
- 2 Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States
- 3 Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, California, United States
Editors, the 2 cases presented here demonstrate with 3-dimensional imaging a now somewhat rare surgery for congenital heart disease, the atrial baffle, To our knowledge post operative imaging in 3 dimensions after this surgery has not be previously published. Further these two cases represent somewhat rare forms of heterotaxy anatomy, also with pre and post operative 3 -dimensional imaging. Post operative imaging with CT was performed because of the complexity of the cases to ensure adequacy of the repairs, and these images were segmented into 3D format. As mentioned in the manuscript only a few cases of this type of anatomy have been published, however not with advanced post-operative imaging that clearly demonstrates the surgical repairs.
Keywords: Gregory Perens: Writingoriginal draft, Writingreview & editing. Jeffrey Frazer: Conceptualization, Writingreview & editing. G. Michael Silberbach: Conceptualization, supervision, Writingreview & editing Gregory Perens: Writing -original draft, Writing -review & editing. Jeffrey Frazer: Conceptualization, Writing -review & editing. G. Michael Silberbach: Conceptualization, Writing -review & editing Heterotaxy Syndrome
Received: 17 Nov 2024; Accepted: 27 Feb 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Perens, Silberbach and Frazer. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Gregory Perens, UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, United States
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