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LiCUSPid atresia is generally considered an anatomically uncorrectable lesion. A recent report by Fontan and Bauder' described a new procedure in which an aortic allograft conduit was inserted between the right atrium and pulmonary artery. In addition, a pulmonic valve allograft was sutured at the right atrium-inferior vena caval (IYC) orifice and a superior vena caval (SYC)right pulmonary artery (Glenn) shunt was carried out. Two of their 3 patients were alive at 24 months; the third died 6 hours postoperatively of mitral insufficiency. This report describes 2 additional patients, one of whom is the third known survivor. Case reports CASE 1. M. P., a 12-year-old boy, was cyanotic at birth. A Glenn (SVC-right pulmonary artery) shunt was carried out at 18 months of age. His cyanosis improved until age 8, when increasing cyanosis necessitated a left Blalock-Taussig anastomosis. His condition improved for a brief time, but he again developed increasing cyanosis, shortness of breath, and marked exercise intolerance. In May, 1972, he presented as a moderately

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Author

William Stanford; Raymond G. Armstrong; Robert E. Cline; Terry D. King

Publisher

CTSNet; American Association for Thoracic Surgery; Mosby Inc.; Elsevier BV; Publons (ISSN 1097-685X)

Published

1973

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)