Remove the right atrium of the recipient, leaving only the left atrium, and keep everything else unchanged. This avoids the issue of having two sinus nodes while saving time in the most troublesome left atrium pulmonary vein anastomosis.
Doctor Ye Chuanguang quickly discerned that they might be planning to adopt the bicaval method or the Whole Heart Method for the surgery because if the biatrial method was being used, there would be no special instruction to preserve enough vena cava length for the subsequent donor-recipient heart anastomosis.
Specifically, whether such a nine-year-old child will challenge the most difficult Whole Heart Method probably needs to wait until the donor heart is delivered to the Shou'er operating room and placed in the child's thoracic cavity to assess the situation.
