Surgical glue resembling left atrial thrombus

S Nicholas Fletcher; Kaushik Mandal; Marjan Jahangiri

doi:10.1016/j.icvts.2004.02.017

Surgical glue resembling left atrial thrombus

Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2004 Jun;3(2):409-10. doi: 10.1016/j.icvts.2004.02.017.

Authors

S Nicholas Fletcher¹, Kaushik Mandal, Marjan Jahangiri

Affiliation

¹ Department of Anesthesia, St George's Hospital and Medical School, Blackshaw Road, London SW17 0QT, UK.

PMID: 17670275
DOI: 10.1016/j.icvts.2004.02.017

Abstract

A 41-year-old female with Down's syndrome and severe aortic regurgitation underwent homograft aortic root replacement. During the operation, surgical glue was applied which appeared to have inverted the left atrial appendage giving an appearance of a left atrial mass.