The high incidence of complications was related to excessive shunt, especially with the prostheses sutured on the ascending aorta or on the brachiocephalic artery.
In such cases, the patch sutured into the right ventricular cavity must also serve the role of the absent muscular outlet septum.
After injection of tracers the wound was closed in anatomic layers and the skin sutured.
The needle was then withdrawn, the wound was closed in anatomic layers and the skin sutured.
The syringe was removed, the skull opening sealed with dental cement, and the skin sutured.
The sample vials and plugged catheter ends were placed in a canvas pouch sutured to the left flank region of the heifer.
The larger limb was sutured end-to-side to the right lower lobar pulmonary artery.
Postinjection, the dura mater and skin were sutured.