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Intra-abdominal bleeding after repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection
T Watanabe1, K Tajima, T Shimomura
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Japan.
The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon
|August 1, 1997
Abstract:
A case is reported of sudden rupture of a subcapsular hematoma of the liver (SHL) due to birth injury occurring after complete repair of a total anomalous pulmonary venous connection in a 3-day-old male infant. Autopsy showed a wide bruised surface of liver parenchyma. Although making a diagnosis of SHL may be difficult before neonatal cardiac surgery, special care on this quite rare complication must be taken in neonates with difficult delivery.