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Bicaval anastomosis in a heart transplant recipient with left superior vena cava
Gregorio Rábago1, Alejandro Martín-Trenor, José Luis López-Coronado
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Clinica Universitaria, University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain. grabago@unav.es
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|October 29, 2002
Abstract:
We describe the surgical procedure of orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT) in a recipient with persistent left superior vena cava (LSVC) and isolated noncompaction of the left ventricle. The bicaval anastomosis technique was performed using and isolating his native coronary sinus to let the left superior vena cava drain into his own inferior vena cava through the native coronary sinus.