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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Regen Med. 2012 May;7(3):409–419. doi: 10.2217/rme.12.12

Figure 1. Tissue-engineered vascular graft as an extracardiac total cavopulmonary connection in the modified Fontan operation.

Figure 1

In the treatment of single ventricle physiology, the two-stage modified Fontan diverges from the classic Glenn operation by isolating the right atrium from venous return. Venous blood is passively delivered to the right pulmonary artery. In the first stage of the operaton, the SVC is anastomed to the right pulmonary artery. After the second stage, a vascular conduit such as a TEVG connects the IVC to the right pulmonary artery. IVC: Inferior vena cava; SVC: Superior vena cava; TEVG: Tissue-engineered vascular graft.