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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 89, 780-786, Copyright © 1985 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Normothermic caval inflow occlusion. Application to operations for congenital heart disease

RA Jonas, AR Castaneda and MD Freed

The technique of normothermic caval inflow occlusion was introduced primarily for relief of pulmonary valve stenosis and continues to be used for this purpose with excellent results. However, the technique may also be applied to a number of other lesions such as aortic valve stenosis in neonates and infants, for placement of outflow patches or valve excision for pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum, for atrial septectomy in children with restrictive atrial septum, and for other conditions wherein a period of up to 2 minutes of intracardiac exposure is sufficient. This report examines the early and long-term results in 140 children who underwent normothermic caval inflow occlusion at The Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, over the past 11 years. Ninety-four children underwent pulmonary valvotomy (early mortality 0%), 21 had aortic valvotomy (19%), 10 with pulmonary atresia and intact ventricular septum underwent various procedures (50%), 11 had atrial septectomy (9%), and there were four miscellaneous procedures (50%). Apart from avoiding many of the potential complications of cardiopulmonary bypass, inflow occlusion has provided as good or better short-term and long-term results as those obtained with cardiopulmonary bypass, particularly in infants and neonates, and also has proved more cost effective.

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