Surgical management of late-term pulmonary venous baffle stenosis after Senning operation

Gökmen Akkaya

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2018.16158

Gökmen Akkaya¹, Çağatay Bilen¹, Osman Nuri Tuncer¹, Mehmet Fatih Ayık, Yüksel Atay¹

¹Department of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Ege University Faculty of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2018.16158

Although pulmonary venous baffle stenosis is not a common late complication after the Senning operation, surgical treatment is vital, when interventional methods fail to correct the pathology. Our patient was admitted to hospital with recurrent epistaxis and exertional dyspnea 6.5 years after the Senning procedure. The gradient in the pulmonary venous baffle was measured as 34 to 35 mmHg via transthoracic echocardiography. During surgical treatment, the calcified and retracted polytetrafluoroethylene flap was completely excised and porcine pericardial xenograft was used to cover the pulmonary venous baffle. At the end of the procedure, no significant gradient was detected via transesophageal echocardiography.

Keywords : Porcine xenograft; pulmonary venous baffle stenosis; Senning operation

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