Left Atrial Plication for Heart Transplantation in Patients with Giant Left Atrium
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https://doi.org/10.1532/HSF98.20121098Abstract
Giant left atrium occasionally occurs in patients undergoing heart transplantation and causes a technical challenge for the surgeon because of the substantial discrepancy in size between the left atrial cuffs of the recipient and donor. We describe a left atrial plication technique that substantially reduces this discrepancy and allows for a standard left atrial anastomosis to be performed without any other modifications in technique.References
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