Open heart operation in a child with congenital heart disease and hereditary spherocytosis.
An 18-month-old girl with hereditary spherocytosis underwent closure of the ventricular septal defect, commissurotomy of the pulmonary valve, and patch angioplasty of the pulmonary trunk without previous splenectomy. No serious complications as a result of hemolysis occurred in the perioperative period. Open heart surgery can therefore be safely performed in young children with congenital heart disease and hereditary spherocytosis who have not previously undergone splenectomy.
Yoshimura
Naoki
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First Department of Surgery, Toyama University School of Medicine, Toyama University, Toyama, Japan. ynaoki@me.u-toyama.ac.jp
Murakami
Hirohisa
H
Otaka
Shingo
S
Watanabe
Kazuhiro
K
Watanabe
Sayaka
S
Uese
Keiichiro
K
Nomura
Keiko
K
Hashimoto
Ikuo
I
Kanegane
Hirokazu
H
Ichida
Fukiko
F
Misaki
Takuro
T
D005260:Female; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011666:Pulmonary Valve Stenosis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D013103:Spherocytosis, Hereditary / Q000150:complications*