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A polytetrafluoroethylene graft was used as an extracardiac conduit to connect a persistent left superior vena cava to the right atrial appendage in a four-year-old male.
A PTFE graft can be successfully used as an extracardiac conduit to correct persistent left superior vena cava draining into the left atrium in a pediatric patient with dextroversion.
May inform surgical planning for rare congenital anomalies; leaves open questions of reproducibility and durability.
We report a rare case of dextroversion accompanied with atrial septal defect (ASD), persistent left superior vena cava with absent right superior vena cava in a four-year-old male. A polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) graft as an extracardiac conduit was used to connect the persistent left superior vena cava (PLSVC) with the right atrial appendage.
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Zhong et al. (2015) studied this question. A polytetrafluoroethylene graft was used as an extracardiac conduit to connect a persistent left superior vena cava to the right atrial appendage in a four-year-old male.
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