Abstract
A 7-year-old boy with a history of neonatal pulmonary artery banding underwent almost complete closure of a sieve-like “Swiss-cheese” ventricular septal defect, using a combination sandwich patch technique through a right ventriculotomy. Although defects existed in the high-, mid-, and low-trabecular septa, a right ventriculotomy and division of the muscle trabeculations continuing the septal and moderator bands helped delineate the edges of the defects. Although patients with “Swiss-cheese” ventricular septal defects may be candidates for a Fontan operation conventionally, a combination patch technique could be considered the procedure of choice.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
Supplementary Material
Please find the following supplemental material available below.
For Open Access articles published under a Creative Commons License, all supplemental material carries the same license as the article it is associated with.
For non-Open Access articles published, all supplemental material carries a non-exclusive license, and permission requests for re-use of supplemental material or any part of supplemental material shall be sent directly to the copyright owner as specified in the copyright notice associated with the article.
