The Glenn procedure is a palliative surgical procedure performed on patients with tricuspid atresia. It is also used as part of the staged surgical treatment of hypoplastic left heart syndrome and hypoplastic right heart syndrome. The original technique has been largely replaced by the bidirectional Glenn procedure.
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What is the bidirectional Glenn shunt that is linked to the Glenn procedure?
A published surgical review calls it a commonly performed procedure for cyanotic congenital heart diseases that eventually lead to a single ventricle repair.
A published surgical technique review in the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central archive describes the bidirectional cavopulmonary (Glenn) shunt as a commonly performed procedure for a variety of cyanotic congenital heart diseases that eventually lead to a single ventricle repair.
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Source Wikidata: Glenn Procedure
Source Wikidata: Glenn Procedure
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1. Wikipedia
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia Foundation- Status: Discontinued or Obsolete
2. Extremely Long-Term Follow-Up of Dr William Glenn's Original Patient Cohort With Superior Cavopulmonary Anastomosis (1958-1990)
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performed the first classic superior cavopulmonary anastomosis in a seven-year-old child at Yale in 1958
3. Glenn procedure (Wikipedia)
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Glenn procedure is a palliative surgical procedure performed for patients with tricuspid atresia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_procedure, lead section
ft heart syndrome and hypoplastic right heart syndrome. This procedure has been largely replaced by Bidirectional Glenn procedure.
View the SourceWikidata: Glenn Procedure
- Wikidata Q5569197, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Treats: Tricuspid atresia, lead paragraph
- Treats: Hypoplastic left heart syndrome, lead paragraph
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