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Successful treatment of leakage of serous fluid following construction of a polytetrafluorethylene central shunt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Paolo Masiello ,
Antonio Panza  and
Giuseppe Di Benedetto
Paolo Masiello*
Affiliation:
From the Department of Cardiac Surgery, Hospital S. Leonardo, Salerno
Antonio Panza
Affiliation:
From the Department of Cardiac Surgery, Hospital S. Leonardo, Salerno
Giuseppe Di Benedetto
Affiliation:
From the Department of Cardiac Surgery, Hospital S. Leonardo, Salerno
*
Dr. Paolo Masiello, Via C. D' Arnico 45, 84100 Salerno, Italy. Tel. 39-89-672399.
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Abstract

A central polytetrafluorethylene shunt was constructed in a 13-year-old boy after previous placement of a Waterston-Cooley shunt. Because of excessive leakage of serous fluid from the prosthesis, the boy required a second operation when the shunt was wrapped with absorbable collagen hemostat (Novacol FibrillarTM). The leakage stopped suddenly and the boy was discharged home after one week. Follow-up at four months shows no pericardial effusion and good function of the shunt.

Keywords

Leakagecentral shuntpolytetrafluorethylene

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Brief Reports
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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 1995 , pp. 94 - 95
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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