Apex rotation as a risk factor for total anomalous pulmonary
connection repair in single ventricle
Running head: apex rotation is a risk for PVO
Hidetsugu Asai, MD, PhD1, Yasushige Shingu, MD, PhD2, Jin Ikarashi, MD1, Yuchen Cao,
MD1, Daisuke Takeyoshi, MD1, Yosuke
Arai, MD3, Noriyoshi Ebuoka, MD3,
Tsuyoshi Tachibana, MD, PhD1
1 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kanagawa
Children’s Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan
2 Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery,
Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido
University, Sapporo, Japan
3 Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery,
Hokkaido Medical Center For Child Health and Rehabilitation, Sapporo,
Japan
Corresponding author: Hidetsugu Asai, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kanagawa Children’s Medical
Center,
Mutsukawa 2 tyoume 138-4, Minami-ku, Yokohama 232-8555, Japan
Tel: +81-45-711-2351
Fax: +81-45-711-2351
E-mail:hidejansson@yahoo.co.jp
Date and number of IRB approval: 18.09.2020; the number of IRB,
2005-17
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