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Biventricular hearts not amenable to biventricular repair
1Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, Ontario, Canada.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|September 2, 1998
Abstract:
Many hearts, although considered morphologically biventricular, may not be candidates for a biventricular repair. Such patients are best placed on a Fontan algorithm. This article reviews in broad principles those hearts that, despite being biventricular, do not lend themselves to a two-ventricle repair.