Primary repair of infracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous connection using a modified sutureless technique.
Primary repair of infracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous connection is associated with a significant risk of recurrent pulmonary venous obstruction. Herein we describe a technique of primary repair in which a modified sutureless anastomosis is constructed by suturing the left atrium to the posterior mediastinal pleura that surrounds the pulmonary venous confluence.
Holtz Children's Hospital/Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
Efren
E
Buitrago
Anthony L
AL
Panos
Marco
M
Ricci
D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical / Q000379:methods; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D011668:Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease / Q000151:congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013536:Suture Techniques; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*