ATS
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Personal Folders
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Author home page(s):
Malek G. Massad
Christian Sirois
Norman Snow
Alexander S. Geha
Right arrow Permission Requests
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Massad, M. G.
Right arrow Articles by Geha, A. S.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Massad, M. G.
Right arrow Articles by Geha, A. S.
Related Collections
Right arrow Lung - transplantation

Ann Thorac Surg 2001;71:1046-1047
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

How to do it

Pulmonary venous drainage into the left atrial appendage facilitates transplantation of the left lung with difficult exposure

Malek G. Massad, MDa, Christian Sirois, MDa, Sanji Tripathy, MDa, Howard A. Jaffe, MDa, Norman Snow, MDa, Alexander S. Geha, MDa

a The Section of Thoracic Organ Transplantation, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Accepted for publication September 19, 2000.

Address reprint requests to Dr Massad, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery (MC 958), The University of Illinois at Chicago, 840 South Wood St, CSB Suite 417, Chicago, IL 60612
e-mail: mmassad{at}uic.edu

Heterotopic implantation of the pulmonary venous confluence into the left atrial appendage during left lung transplantation is a reasonable alternative technique to reestablish venous drainage when exposure of the native left pulmonary veno-atrial connection may be problematic. We used this approach in a 39-year-old woman with chronic bronchiectasis who underwent bilateral sequential lung transplantation through a clam-shell approach. Dense hilar scarring and a small left atrial size made exposure of the native left pulmonary veno-atrial connection difficult.




This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Ann. Thorac. Surg.Home page
N. H. Khasati, A. MacHaal, J. Thekkudan, S. Kumar, and N. Yonan
An Aberrant Donor Pulmonary Vein During Lung Transplant: A Surgical Challenge
Ann. Thorac. Surg., January 1, 2005; 79(1): 330 - 331.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
ANN THORAC SURG ASIAN CARDIOVASC THORAC ANN EUR J CARDIOTHORAC SURG
J THORAC CARDIOVASC SURG ICVTS ALL CTSNet JOURNALS
Copyright © 2001 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.