Atriotomy

Atriotomy is the operation of dissecting the cavity of the atrium in order to remove blood clots or foreign bodies from it, as well as for diagnostic procedures.

Atriotomy is performed in case of acute cardiac arrhythmia, cardiogenic shock that threatens the patient’s life, pulmonary embolism and other emergency conditions.

The manipulation is carried out under anesthesia, after which the atrium cavity is opened, blood, clots and foreign bodies are removed, and then the atrium is sutured.

Atriotomy is another name for commissurotomy (Commissurotomia translated as “cutting the ligament”) - dissection of the tendon-ligamentous apparatus of the heart under the pericardium (pericardial mesh of the “heart”) in order to eliminate the obstruction of blood flow from the left ventricle during its