Total cavopulmonary connection using a pedicled pericardial conduit for a patient with apicocaval juxtaposition.
A 5-year-old boy, with a double inlet solitary ventricle, pulmonary atresia, and apicocaval juxtaposition underwent an extracardiac total cavopulmonary connection. A pedicled pericardial conduit was placed behind the ventricle to make a straight pathway between the inferior vena cava and pulmonary artery. This report presents a solution for managing patients with complicated heart defects with apicocaval juxtaposition during the completion of a total cavopulmonary connection.
Kitayama
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Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan. hito-57@med.kindai.ac.jp
Oku
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Matsumoto
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Onoe
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D000792:Angiography; D002675:Child, Preschool; D018610:Heart Bypass, Right / Q000379:methods*; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010496:Pericardium / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013536:Suture Techniques