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Ann Thorac Surg 1999;68:1873-1874
© 1999 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

How to Do It

A new patch for the Norwood procedure

Gaetano Gargiulo, MDa, Carlo Pace Napoleone, MDa, Marco Solinas, MDa, Guido Frascaroli, MDb, Angelo Pierangeli, MDa

a Department of Cardiac Surgery, Santa Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
b Department of Anesthesiology, Santa Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Address reprint requests to Dr Gargiulo, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Policlinico Santa Orsola, Via Massarenti 9, 40138 Bologna, Italy
e-mail: gargiulo{at}orsola-malpighi.med.unibo.it

The problems related to the pediatric pulmonary homograft availability and the possible transmission of viral infection led us to design a new patch for aortic enlargement in the Norwood procedure for hypoplastic left heart syndrome. This sterile bovine pericardial patch is not expensive and can be tailor-made.




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