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Its Management With the Use of a Valved External Conduit

Scott Stewart, MD

Arch Surg. 1979;114(3):266-270.

Abstract
• The Hancock conduit that contains a porcine xenograft valve has been used in part of the cardiac repair of 22 patients with complex congenital heart disease. Five patients had a severe form of tetralogy of Fallot; six had pulmonary atresia; five had transposition of the great vessels, ventricular septal defect (VSD), and pulmonic stenosis; five had truncus arteriosus; and one had "corrected" transposition, VSD, and pulmonic stenosis. The hospital mortality was 2/22. This conduit has proved a satisfactory method to establish right ventricular-pulmonary artery continuity.

(Arch Surg 114:266-270, 1979)

Author Affiliations
From the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Rochester (NY) Medical Center.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 6, 1978.

Reprints not available.

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