Left pulmonary arterioplasty--extended end-to-end anastomosis
Yoshihiro Oshima1, Doi Yoshiro, Chikashi Shimazu
1Department of Surgery (I), Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Toyama, Japan. oshima@ms.toyama-mpu.ac.jp
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|April 28, 2005
Abstract:
Surgical arterioplasty for left pulmonary branch stenosis often produces unsatisfactory results. We report a new operative approach involving a modification of end-to end anastomosis, providing a widely patent and nonredundant anastomosis.
