Surgical management of an extracardiac total cavopulmonary connection in heterotaxy syndrome with isolated hepatic drainage.
The extracardiac modification for completion of a cavopulmonary connection has added a further option for direction of inferior vena cava and/or hepatic venous drainage to the pulmonary arteries. The authors describe a technique of isolating a hepatic vein and connecting it to the inferior caval vein in a side-by-side fashion prior to anastomosing it to the tubegraft in a patient with heterotaxy syndrome.
Schreiber
Christian
C
Clinic of Cardiovascular Surgery, German Heart Center Munich at the Technical University, Munich, Germany. schreiber@dhm.mhn.de
Hörer
Jürgen
J
Kostolny
Martin
M
Holper
Klaus
K
Eicken
Andreas
A
Lange
Rüdiger
R
D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D002675:Child, Preschool; D018610:Heart Bypass, Right / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D006503:Hepatic Veins / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D013577:Syndrome; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery*