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Compression of the pulmonary veins by the descending aorta in patients corrected surgically by the Fontan procedure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Youichi Kawahira ,
Keishi Kadoba  and
Hikaru Matsuda
Youichi Kawahira
Affiliation:
First Department of Surgery, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan
Keishi Kadoba
Affiliation:
First Department of Surgery, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan
Hikaru Matsuda*
Affiliation:
First Department of Surgery, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan
*
Professor Hikaru Matsuda, MD, First Department of Surgery, Osaka University Medical School, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565 Japan. Tel: 81-6-879-3154, Fax: 81-6-879-3159
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Abstract

We describe 4 patients in whom the pulmonary veins were compressed between the descend ing aorta and the atrial part of the heart in consequence of an abnormal distribution of the pulmonary blood flow after the Fontan procedure.

Keywords

Compressed pulmonary veinFontan operationmaldistribution of pulmonary blood flowright isomerism heartlung perfusion scintigraph
Type
Original Articles
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 1998 , pp. 86 - 89
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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