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Method of single-lung transplantation in the absence of a left atrial cuff
G L Hammond1, K L Franco, J C Baldwin
1Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|August 1, 1992
Abstract:
A method used clinically for anastomosing the pulmonary veins to the left atrium, in the absence of a left atrial cuff, during single-lung transplantation by reconstructing the atrium with pericardium is described. Postoperative ventilation/perfusion scans show normal pulmonary blood flow.