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Repair of postinfarction ventricular septal defect with joined endocardial patches
T Shibata1, S Suehiro, T Ishikawa
1Second Department of Surgery, Osaka City University Medical School, Abeno, Japan.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|April 1, 1997
Abstract:
We describe a technique for repair of ventricular septal defect with two bovine pericardial patches joined to make a single pouch. The size of the finished pouch can be adjusted as desired after both patches are sutured to the myocardium, unlike when one patch is used. Suturing is easier than when a single patch is used.