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Ann Thorac Surg 2002;73:992-993
© 2002 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Modified extracardiac Fontan in a patient with separate hepatic venous drainage

Jeong Ryul Lee, MD*a, Cheul Lee, MDa, Ji Min Chang, MDa, Eun Jung Bae, MDb, Chung Il Noh, MDb

a Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Children’s Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Clinical Research Institute, Seoul, South Korea
b Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University Children’s Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Clinical Research Institute, Seoul, South Korea

Accepted for publication October 16, 2001.

* Address reprint requests to Dr Jeong Ryul Lee, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Children’s Hospital, 28 Yongon-dong, Jongro-gu, Seoul 110-744, South Korea
e-mail: jrl{at}plaza.snu.ac.kr

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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