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Total cavopulmonary connection via a thoracotomy
Miwa Nanaumi1, Toshihide Asou, Yuko Takeda
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|September 20, 2002
Abstract:
We report a patient who underwent a total cavopulmonary connection with an extracardiac conduit through a right thoracotomy. The thoracotomy approach was useful in circumventing possible hazardous complications at the sternal reentry for the completion of a staged Fontan due to previous mediastinitis in this patient.