Book contents
- Wilcox’s Surgical Anatomy of the Heart
- Wilcox’s Surgical Anatomy of the Heart
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Surgical Approaches to the Heart
- Chapter 2 Development of the Heart
- Chapter 3 Anatomy of the Cardiac Chambers
- Chapter 4 Surgical Anatomy of the Valves of the Heart
- Chapter 5 Surgical Anatomy of the Coronary Circulation
- Chapter 6 Surgical Anatomy of Cardiac Conduction
- Chapter 7 Analytic Description of Congenitally Malformed Hearts
- 8 Lesions with Normal Segmental Connections
- 9 Lesions in Hearts with Abnormal Segmental Connections
- 10 Abnormalities of the Great Vessels
- Chapter 11 Positional Anomalies of the Heart
- Index
- References
9 - Lesions in Hearts with Abnormal Segmental Connections
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 April 2024
- Wilcox’s Surgical Anatomy of the Heart
- Wilcox’s Surgical Anatomy of the Heart
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Surgical Approaches to the Heart
- Chapter 2 Development of the Heart
- Chapter 3 Anatomy of the Cardiac Chambers
- Chapter 4 Surgical Anatomy of the Valves of the Heart
- Chapter 5 Surgical Anatomy of the Coronary Circulation
- Chapter 6 Surgical Anatomy of Cardiac Conduction
- Chapter 7 Analytic Description of Congenitally Malformed Hearts
- 8 Lesions with Normal Segmental Connections
- 9 Lesions in Hearts with Abnormal Segmental Connections
- 10 Abnormalities of the Great Vessels
- Chapter 11 Positional Anomalies of the Heart
- Index
- References
Summary
Over the years, so-called univentricular hearts represented one of the greatest challenges for surgical correction. All this changed with the advent of the Fontan procedure,1 along with the realization that it could become the final stage of the sequence of procedures used to correct lesions such as those included in the hypoplastic left heart syndrome,2 which previously had been beyond surgical repair. The overall group of lesions also posed significant problems in adequate description and categorization. Even these days, many continue to describe patients with a double inlet left ventricle as having a single ventricle, despite the fact that, with the availability of clinical diagnostic techniques producing three-dimensional datasets, patients with this lesion can be seen to have two chambers within their ventricular mass, one being large and the other small (Figure 9.1.1). The semantic problems with description can now be resolved by the simple expedient of describing the patients as having functionally univentricular hearts.3
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- Wilcox's Surgical Anatomy of the Heart , pp. 299 - 406Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024