Pulmonary artery partition: new method for correction of interrupted aortic arch

Utley, J.R.; Swain, J.A.; Higgins, C.B.; Kashani, I.A.

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 86(2): 309-311

1983


ISSN/ISBN: 0022-5223
PMID: 6876868
Document Number: 207276
We have successfully corrected interrupted aortic arch with ventricular septal defect by employing deep hypothermia and circulatory arrest, a median sternotomy incision, and a pulmonary arteriotomy. This simplified technique has the advantage of an abbreviated period of cerebral ischemia, with a relatively simple partitioning of the pulmonary artery.

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