Modified extracardiac Fontan in a patient with separate hepatic venous drainage

Ann Thorac Surg. 2002 Mar;73(3):992-3. doi: 10.1016/s0003-4975(01)03425-7.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Fontan Procedure / methods*
  • Hepatic Veins / abnormalities*
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Male
  • Vena Cava, Inferior / abnormalities*