Total cavopulmonary connection via a thoracotomy.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
We report a patient who underwent a total cavopulmonary connection with an extracardiac conduit through a right thoracotomy. The thoracotomy approach was useful in circumventing possible hazardous complications at the sternal reentry for the completion of a staged Fontan due to previous mediastinitis in this patient.
Medical subject headings
- Coronary Vessel Anomalies
- Heart Bypass, Right
- Mediastinitis
- Postoperative Complications
- Pulmonary Atresia
- Sternum
- Thoracotomy