Modified extracardiac Fontan in a patient with separate hepatic venous drainage.

Ann Thorac Surg

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Children's Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Clinical Research Institute, South Korea.

Published: March 2002

We describe an alternative technique to the extracardiac Fontan procedure in a patient with a univentricular heart, in which the inferior caval vein and the hepatic vein drained separately into the common atrium and the intraatrial orifice of the hepatic vein was adjacent to the opening of the left lower pulmonary vein.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0003-4975(01)03425-7DOI Listing

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