Katewa Ashish, Marwah Ashutosh, Singh Vishal, Ramaswamy Arun, Sharma Rajesh
Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Intensive Care Fortis-Escorts Heart Institute, Okhla, New Delhi, India.
World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2012 Jul 1;3(3):385-8. doi: 10.1177/2150135112438231.
Biventricular repair in right atrial isomerism is rarely feasible due to associated anomalies of venous connection, ventricular imbalance, nonroutabilty of the interventricular communication, a common atrioventricular junction, and inadequate pulmonary arterial branches. These patients are also often not ideal for univentricular repair due to some of the above associations. We describe a novel surgical technique that was utilized in such a patient for biventricular repair of a child with right atrial isomerism with total anomalous pulmonary venous connection, regurgitant common atrioventricular valve, hypoplastic left ventricle, nonroutable ventricular septal defect, and pulmonary stenosis.