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Modified extracardiac Fontan in a patient with separate hepatic venous drainage
Jeong Ryul Lee1, Cheul Lee, Ji Min Chang
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Children's Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Clinical Research Institute, South Korea. jrl@plaza.snu.ac.kr
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|March 20, 2002
Abstract:
We describe an alternative technique to the extracardiac Fontan procedure in a patient with a univentricular heart, in which the inferior caval vein and the hepatic vein drained separately into the common atrium and the intraatrial orifice of the hepatic vein was adjacent to the opening of the left lower pulmonary vein.