[Comparative hydrodynamic evaluation of variants of the cavopulmonary anastomosis]

An analysis of the range of postoperative complications following cavapulmonary anastomosis reveals a number of medical engineering problems in surgery techniques. The severity of the surgery due to the nonphysiological rearrangement of blood circulation makes it necessary to search for the most optimal types of anastomosis in terms of the hemo- and hydrodynamics of circulation. To optimize the performance of cavapulmonary anastomosis, namely to define the mutual localization and orientation of the implanted anastomoses against the axes of inflow and outflow, hemo- and hydrodynamic studies were made by Doppler laser anemometry. From the hydrodynamic point of view, the findings indicate the most optimal type of cavapulmonary anastomosis-cruciform anastomosis by displacing 0.5 d from the outflow axis at an angle of 60ë5 degrees.