Operative Methods Used for Heart Transplantation in Complex Univentricular Heart Disease and Variations of Atrial Situs

This report addresses the surgical techniques used for transplantation of both pediatric and adult recipients with complex univentricular heart disease. Although transplantation is only occasionally employed as primary therapy for hypoplastic left heart syndrome in the current era, this type of CHD still serves as a model for orthotopic transplantation in any young infant with univentricular anatomy and accompanying aortic arch obstruction. Transplantation in recipients with atrial situs inversus totalis is also featured. (Source: Operative Techniques in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery: A Comparative Atlas)




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