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Ann Thorac Surg 1999;68:1431-1432
© 1999 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Preparatory surgical stent placement facilitating extracardiac vascular connections

Gerhard Ziemer, MDa, Markus K. Heinemann, MDa

a Division of Thoracic, Cardiac, and Vascular Surgery, Tübingen University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany

Address reprint requests to Dr Ziemer, Division of Thoracic, Cardiac, and Vascular Surgery, Tuebingen University Hospital, Hoppe-Seyler-St 3, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
e-mail: gdziemer{at}med.uni-tuebingen.de

Native pericardium can be valuable material for the construction of extracardiac vascular connections. To avoid its scarring by adhesions and to preform future vascular connections, ringed polytetrafluoroethylene prostheses were implanted into the pericardial sac during staged operations for univentricular heart disease. At reoperation, extracardiac connections were found to be greatly facilitated by this approach.






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