Norwood Procedure with Home-made Bovine Pericardial Patch: A report of 2 cases.
- Author:
Seog Ki LEE
1
;
Woong Han KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Chosun University College of Medicine, Gwangju, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Norwood procedure;
Bovine pericardium
- MeSH:
Allografts;
Humans;
Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome;
Norwood Procedures*
- From:The Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
2003;36(8):602-605
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
A patch design using bovine pericardial patch for aortic enlargement in the Norwood procedure has been introduced to avoid problems related to homograft availability. We report 2 successful cases of Norwood procedure with home-made bovine pericardial patch. The first case was a 23-day-old (2.2 kg) patient with multi-level left ventricular outflow tract obstruction with ductal-dependent systemic circulation. The other case was a 9-day-old (3 kg) patient with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. This technique was relatively easy to perform, reproducible and quite effective like homograft patch.
