Scimitar syndrome: A new multipatch technique and incidence of postoperative pulmonary vein obstruction.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

A review of our center's experience before March 2011 showed that one half of 36 patients who had a baffling or reimplantation procedure to repair scimitar syndrome developed pulmonary vein obstruction. We analyzed the results of a new operation that enlarges the left atrium and avoids circuitous pathways or tension on the scimitar pulmonary vein.

Methods

Between April 2011 and November 2018, 22 patients underwent scimitar vein surgery; 11 had baffling or reimplantation and 11 only had the new operation that included resection of the atrial septum with removal of the muscular limbus. The left atrium was pulled down toward the scimitar vein and a V-shaped incision made at the scimitar vein atrial junction with the space filled with a pulmonary homograft. If the scim

SUBMITTER: Geggel RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8303092 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature