title: Open heart operation in a child with congenital heart disease and hereditary spherocytosis.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, Toyama University School of Medicine, Toyama University, Toyama, Japan. ynaoki@me.u-toyama.ac.jp
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yoshimura
authors.forename: Hirohisa
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Murakami
authors.forename: Shingo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Otaka
authors.forename: Kazuhiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Sayaka
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Keiichiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Uese
authors.forename: Keiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nomura
authors.forename: Ikuo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
authors.forename: Hirokazu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kanegane
authors.forename: Fukiko
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ichida
authors.forename: Takuro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Misaki
mesh_terms: 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*