Yajuan Zhang, Jun Yan*, Qiang Wang, Shoujun Li, Jing Sun, Shuo Dong, Jiachen Li
Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.16, No.4, pp. 383-392, 2021, DOI:10.32604/CHD.2021.015479
- 19 April 2021
Abstract Background: The long-term outcomes of patients treated with a Kawashima procedure and keeping the antegrade pulmonary blood flow (AnPBF) in single-ventricle (SV) and interrupted inferior vena cava (IVC) heart disease is still uncertain as yet. Methods: We investigated 18 patients who underwent the Kawashima procedure with SV physiology and an interrupted IVC between January 2009 and June 2018, perioperative, operative and postoperative characteristics were recorded. Results: A total of 18 patients underwent the Kawashima procedure at a median age of 2.7 years (range 0.5–24.7 years), of which 12 (66.7%) were male and 6 (33.3%) were female. The… More >