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Use of a saphenous venous homograft for constructing a conduit from the right ventricle to the pulmonary arteries in the Norwood procedure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2005

Luca A. Vricella ,
Jane E. Crosson  and
Duke E. Cameron
Luca A. Vricella
Affiliation:
Division of Cardiac Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
Jane E. Crosson
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
Duke E. Cameron
Affiliation:
Division of Cardiac Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Abstract

The use of a conduit of polytetrafluoroethylene placed between the right ventricle and the pulmonary arteries as source of pulmonary arterial supply during the first stage of palliation for the hypoplastic left heart syndrome has facilitated post-operative management and resulted in decreased mortality. We describe here the use of a cryopreserved saphenous vein inserted in reversed direction to create the connection between the right ventricle and the pulmonary arteries in a neonate with low birth weight undergoing the modified Norwood procedure.

Keywords

Hypoplastic left heart syndromepalliationfunctionally single ventricle
Type
Brief Report
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , June 2004 , pp. 325 - 327
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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