Total cavopulmonary connection via a thoracotomy.
We report a patient who underwent a total cavopulmonary connection with an extracardiac conduit through a right thoracotomy. The thoracotomy approach was useful in circumventing possible hazardous complications at the sternal reentry for the completion of a staged Fontan due to previous mediastinitis in this patient.
Nanaumi
Miwa
M
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.
Asou
Toshihide
T
Takeda
Yuko
Y
Lin
Zong-Bo
ZB
Ohara
Kuniyoshi
K
Yoshimura
Hirokuni
H
D002675:Child, Preschool; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000601:surgery*; D018610:Heart Bypass, Right / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008480:Mediastinitis / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery*; D018633:Pulmonary Atresia / Q000601:surgery*; D012086:Reoperation; D012307:Risk Factors; D013249:Sternum / Q000601:surgery*; D013908:Thoracotomy / Q000379:methods*