Intraoperatively we found a 4-cm-long puncture needle that had perforated the pulmonary trunk (arrow) and was continuously leaking blood. In the absence of a thoracic entry site, the needle most ...

2011;9(12):1527-1538. Russell also observed in the specimens analyzed by his group that pulmonary dominance was found only when the aortic component of the trunk was hypoplastic, and an arterial ...

(1) Shrinkage of the PV trunk was often observed in the ablated PVs, and its severity did not correlate with the changes in the LA diameter but did with the severity of the de novo PV narrowing.