Successful total repair of complicated cardiac anomalies with asplenia syndrome

• Published in: The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery Vol. 72; no. 1; pp. 33 - 38
• Main Authors: Ando, F, Shirotani, H, Kawai, J, Kanzaki, Y, Setsuie, N
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States AATS/WTSA 01.07.1976
• Subjects: Abnormalities, Multiple - surgery; Ataxia - surgery; Blood Vessel Prosthesis; Child; Female; Heart Defects, Congenital - diagnostic imaging; Heart Defects, Congenital - surgery; Heart Septal Defects - surgery; Heart Ventricles - abnormalities; Humans; Radiography; Spleen - abnormalities; Transposition of Great Vessels - surgery

A one-stage total repair was successfully accomplished in a Japanese girl, 7 years, 8 months old, who had asplenia syndrome with vixceral heterotaxia, isolated levocardia, and complicated cardiovascular anomalies; double-outlet right ventricle with d-malposition of the great arteries (anterior aorta...