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Extended use of a pulmonary homograft for right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction
1Department of Cardiopulmonary Surgery, Academic Hospital Rotterdam-Dijkzigt, Erasmus University, the Netherlands.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|May 1, 1989
Abstract:
When a pulmonary homograft is used for reconstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract a patch or tube extension is usually required to close the gap in the right ventriculotomy. We describe here a simple method by which a large patch can be tailored from the homograft using the distal main pulmonary artery and its branches.