Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Aug 2010)

Coronary artery bypass surgery in a patient with Kartagener syndrome: a case report and literature review

  • Bougioukas Ioannis,
  • Mikroulis Dimitrios,
  • Danner Bernhard,
  • Lawal Lukman,
  • Eleftheriadis Savvas,
  • Bougioukas George,
  • Didilis Vassilios

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-5-68
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
p. 68

Abstract

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Abstract Kartagener syndrome consists of congenital bronchiectasis, sinusitis, and total situs inversus in half of the patients. A patient diagnosed with Kartagener syndrome was reffered to our department due to 3-vessel coronary disease. An off-pump coronary artery bypass operation was performed using both internal thoracic arteries and a saphenous vein graft. We performed a literature review for cases with Kartagener syndrome, coronary surgery and dextrocardia. Although a few cases of dextrocardia were found in the literature, no case of Kartagener syndrome was mentioned.