Primary repair of infracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous connection using a modified sutureless technique
Efren Buitrago1, Anthony L Panos, Marco Ricci
1Holtz Children's Hospital/Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|June 25, 2008
Abstract:
Primary repair of infracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous connection is associated with a significant risk of recurrent pulmonary venous obstruction. Herein we describe a technique of primary repair in which a modified sutureless anastomosis is constructed by suturing the left atrium to the posterior mediastinal pleura that surrounds the pulmonary venous confluence.


