Extended use of a pulmonary homograft for right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction.
When a pulmonary homograft is used for reconstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract a patch or tube extension is usually required to close the gap in the right ventriculotomy. We describe here a simple method by which a large patch can be tailored from the homograft using the distal main pulmonary artery and its branches.
Angelini
G D
GD
Department of Cardiopulmonary Surgery, Academic Hospital Rotterdam-Dijkzigt, Erasmus University, the Netherlands.
Quaegebeur
J M
JM
D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000601:surgery / Q000637:transplantation*