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Cavopulmonary anastomotic aneurysm: a complication in pulsatile pulmonary arteries
D W Teske1, J T Davis, H D Allen
1Department of Surgery, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Children's Hospital, Columbus 43205.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|June 1, 1994
Abstract:
An aneurysm of a left superior vena cava developed after anastomosis to the left pulmonary artery during repair of an atrioventricular septal defect with a persistent left superior vena cava entering directly into the left atrium. We believe this implies caution should be used in accepting the recent suggestion of using a bidirectional cavopulmonary connection to a pulsatile pulmonary arterial circuit as a way of allowing anatomic correction of atrioventricular septal defect with a small right ventricle.