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A new, safe, and easy technique of atrial septal defect creation
M Takahashi1, H Kanazawa, Y Yamazaki
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Niigata City General Hospital, Niigata, Japan. masashi@med.niigata-u.ac.jp
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|February 2, 2000
Abstract:
We created an atrial septal defect (ASD) using a Ferris-Smith-Kerrison bone punch under transesophageal echocardiographic monitoring for infants with complex congenital heart diseases, eg, transposition of the great arteries. We describe a safe and easy technique of ASD creation instead of Blalock-Hanlon operation.