title: Total cavopulmonary connection via a thoracotomy.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Miwa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nanaumi
authors.forename: Toshihide
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Asou
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.forename: Zong-Bo
authors.initials: ZB
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Kuniyoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ohara
authors.forename: Hirokuni
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yoshimura
mesh_terms: 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*