Two patients with univentricular physiology underwent successful surgical palliation without the use of cardiopulmonary bypass. A 19-year-old girl had an extracardiac Fontan operation and a 4-year-old boy had a Kawashima-type repair with a bilateral bidirectional Glenn procedure.
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