title: Successful conduit repair using aortic homograft in a Jehovah's Witness child.
abstract: A 10-year-old female child of the Jehovah's Witness faith presented with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (S,L,L), pulmonary atresia, and a ventricular septal defect. A successful surgical correction was performed using an aortic homograft as a valved extracardiac conduit without the use of homologous blood or blood products. We used permanent splinting of the sternum with a methyl methacrylate resin plate to prevent compression of the conduit.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miyaji
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Furuse
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chikada
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ono
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kawauchi
mesh_terms: D001011:Aorta / Q000637:transplantation*; D001769:Blood; D001860:Bone Plates; D002648:Child; D002835:Christianity; D005260:Female; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008768:Methylmethacrylates; D018633:Pulmonary Atresia / Q000601:surgery; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D013165:Splints; D013249:Sternum / Q000601:surgery; D014188:Transposition of Great Vessels / Q000601:surgery*
chemical_list: D008768:Methylmethacrylates