In the current era the majority of programs in the United States use a bicaval-left atrial cuff technique for pediatric heart transplantation. This chapter will review the basic steps of donor cardiectomy and discuss complications related to: (1) implantation, (2) left superior vena cava, (3) bilateral bidirectional Glenn shunts, (4) prior transposition of the great arteries, (5) hybrid interventions, and (6) situs inversus.

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Complications Associated with Pediatric Heart Transplantation

  • Awais Ashfaq,
  • David L. S. Morales

摘要

In the current era the majority of programs in the United States use a bicaval-left atrial cuff technique for pediatric heart transplantation. This chapter will review the basic steps of donor cardiectomy and discuss complications related to: (1) implantation, (2) left superior vena cava, (3) bilateral bidirectional Glenn shunts, (4) prior transposition of the great arteries, (5) hybrid interventions, and (6) situs inversus.