Nemours has two state-of-the-art children’s hospitals in addition to our outpatient locations in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida. As a system, we offer pediatric primary, urgent, specialty and hospital care.
Dictionary: Sano shunt
Sano shunt: a small, soft tube that lets blood in the body be redirected.
Heart surgeons use a Sano shunt to connect the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery. This helps increase blood flow to the lungs.