[Re-operation long after the Rastelli's procedures].
Secondary reconstructive operations were performed in six patients, who received Rastelli's procedure in their childhood. Six patients consisted of three tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia, two double outlet right ventricle, and one truncus arteriosus. The reoperations were undergone five to eleven years after the first operation. One patient received a replacement of a old valved conduit with a new larger one because of relative stenosis. The other five patients received reconstructive operations in which an old valved conduit was removed and a new conduit was constructed using the conduit bed as the posterior wall and a patch of xenograft pericardium. All operations performed successfully with no hospital or late cardiac death.
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hiroshima Municipal Hospital, Japan.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical / Q000379:methods; D001705:Bioprosthesis; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D012086:Reoperation; D014188:Transposition of Great Vessels / Q000601:surgery*