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Extracardiac total cavopulmonary connection using a tissue-engineered graft.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
December 2003
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Heart Institute of Japan, Tokyo Women's Medical University.
Objective: Extracardiac and lateral tunnel total cavopulmonary connection are currently 2 major options for patients with a single ventricle physiology. However, each procedure has some disadvantages over the other. We developed a new technique of extracardiac total cavopulmonary connection using a tissue-engineered graft to overcome some of the disadvantages previously associated with both the extracardiac and lateral tunnel procedures.
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