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Madan Mohan Maddali¹, John Valliattu², Pranav Subbaraya Kandachar²

¹Department of Cardiac Anesthesia, National Heart Center, Royal Hospital, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.

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Abstract:

During the surgical repair of a truncus arteriosus with aortic arch interruption and pulmonary artery origin stenosis, a Contegra conduit was implanted as part of reconstruction of the pulmonary artery in a small infant. There was a mismatch between the conduit size and the patient that resulted in protrusion of the conduit between the sternal edges. To accommodate the conduit inside the thoracic cavity, traction was applied to the sternum that was gradually released over a period of time guided by transesophageal echocardiography-derived cardiac output data, as well as continuous hemodynamic parameters. doi: 10.1111/jocs.12734 (J Card Surg 2016;31:357-360).

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