title: Technique of transplantation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome with left superior vena cava.
abstract: The presence of a left superior vena cava in infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome complicates the technical performance of orthotopic cardiac transplantation. In this report we describe a modification of the recipient cardiectomy to maintain patency of the left superior vena cava, leaving the recipient coronary sinus as a conduit for it into the right atrium and avoiding complex venous reconstructions.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
authors.forename: T L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Spray
authors.forename: C B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Huddleston
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Canter
mesh_terms: D004452:Echocardiography; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D014683:Vena Cava, Superior / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery