title: Alternate method for hybrid Fontan completion.
abstract: A Fontan completion with a hybrid approach was performed on a 27-month-old girl with a univentricular heart. A large covered stent was placed between the inferior vena cava and the cavopulmonary anastomosis through a pericardial patch in the intracardiac fenestrated tunnel, circumventing the need for an occluder device for baffle closure. The child's progress has been good and she displays normal growth and acceptable clinical, ultrasonographic, and laboratory results.
authors.affiliation: Surgical Research Division, Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Occidente, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Guadalajara, Mexico.
authors.forename: Ramón
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Arreola-Torres
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: García-y Otero
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Valencia-Castellanos
authors.forename: Eliseo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Portilla-de Buen
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Carrillo-Llamas
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D018729:Fontan Procedure / Q000379:methods*; D018610:Heart Bypass, Right; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D015607:Stents; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000601:surgery