Superior cavopulmonary shunt via right vertical axillary mini-thoracotomy
Teerapong Tocharoenchok1, Christoph Haller1
1Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Labatt Family Heart Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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We present 2 cases of patients with univentricular heart physiology of different anatomic variants who successfully underwent minimally invasive bidirectional cavopulmonary anastomosis via the right vertical axillary mini-thoracotomy.
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