Patient-Specific 3-Dimensional Printing of Tetralogy of Fallot With Major Aortopulmonary Collaterals

Ahmed Elmaghraby; Abdel Naser Ghareep; Maryam Alkuwari; Ziyad M Hijazi; Alessandro Salustri

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.08.017

Patient-Specific 3-Dimensional Printing of Tetralogy of Fallot With Major Aortopulmonary Collaterals

JACC Case Rep. 2019 Oct 23;1(4):535-537. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.08.017. eCollection 2019 Dec.

Authors

Ahmed Elmaghraby¹, Abdel Naser Ghareep^{2

3}, Maryam Alkuwari², Ziyad M Hijazi⁴, Alessandro Salustri¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Noninvasive Cardiology, Heart Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
² Department of Radiology, Heart Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
³ Al Azhar Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar.

Abstract

A 3-dimensional printed model derived from a computed tomography dataset was obtained in a patient with tetralogy of Fallot and major aortopulmonary collaterals. The virtual and solid 3-dimensional heart models provided intuitive representation of such complex and highly individual pathologies and allowed comprehensive spatial conceptualization of the cardiac structures. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.).

Keywords: 3-dimensional printing; 3D, 3-dimensional; MAPCA, major aortopulmonary collateral artery; VSD, ventricular septal defect; computed tomography; congenital heart defect.