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Bidirectional Glenn shunt for right ventricular endomyocardial fibrosis
Amit Mishra1, Soman Rema Krishna Manohar, Ramalingam Sankar Kumar
1Department of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals
|January 23, 2003
Abstract:
A 25-year-old man in New York Heart Association functional class IV with right ventricular endomyocardial fibrosis received a palliative bidirectional Glenn shunt. Despite a stormy postoperative convalescence the bidirectional Glenn shunt provided good long-term palliation.