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Murine Fetal Echocardiography
Published on: February 15, 2013
Anatomical exposure of ventricular septal defect
Shantanu Pande1, Gauranga Majumdar, Surendra Kumar Agarwal
1Department of Cardio-vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow 226014, India.
Abstract:
The ventricular septal defect approached through the right atrium is associated with inadequate exposure and thus difficulty in its closure. The retraction, to expose the defect, leads to distortion of anatomy and a limitation of space to operate. We propose a simple procedure of retracting sutures to expose the defect without this limitation.
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