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Modified Fontan operation with reconstruction of the nonconfluent pulmonary artery
K Nomura1, H Kurosawa, K Hashimoto
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|June 1, 1994
Abstract:
A modification of the Fontan operation for tricuspid atresia with a nonconfluent pulmonary artery after a Glenn shunt is reported. Confluence was established posteriorly using an inverted right atrial flap and anteriorly with a xenopericardial patch.