Circulatory Bypass of the Right Side of the Heart

Abstract

IN the first publication of this series of papers attention was called to the need of a method for the direct delivery of venous blood into the pulmonary arterial circulation.1 The congenital anomalies of the heart that might be remedied from this operation are characterized by malfunction of the right atrium or right ventricle or both. More specifically, the cardiac conditions that would benefit from circulatory bypass of the right side of the heart include stenosis or atresia of the tricuspid and pulmonary outflow tracts, Ebstein's anomaly, single ventricle, bilocular heart and transposition of the great vessels with an associated . . .