Modified extracardiac Fontan in a patient with separate hepatic venous drainage.
We describe an alternative technique to the extracardiac Fontan procedure in a patient with a univentricular heart, in which the inferior caval vein and the hepatic vein drained separately into the common atrium and the intraatrial orifice of the hepatic vein was adjacent to the opening of the left lower pulmonary vein.
Lee
Jeong Ryul
JR
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Children's Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Clinical Research Institute, South Korea. jrl@plaza.snu.ac.kr
Lee
Cheul
C
Chang
Ji Min
JM
Bae
Eun Jung
EJ
Noh
Chung Il
CI
D018729:Fontan Procedure / Q000379:methods*; D006503:Hepatic Veins / Q000002:abnormalities*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000002:abnormalities*