Pande Shantanu, Majumdar Gauranga, Agarwal Surendra Kumar, Kundu Anirban, Kale Neeraj
Department of Cardio-vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow 226014, India.
Heart Lung Circ. 2007 Aug;16(4):322-3. doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2006.10.012. Epub 2007 Mar 7.
The ventricular septal defect approached through the right atrium is associated with inadequate exposure and thus difficulty in its closure. The retraction, to expose the defect, leads to distortion of anatomy and a limitation of space to operate. We propose a simple procedure of retracting sutures to expose the defect without this limitation.