The Kawashima procedure is used for congenital heart disease with a single effective ventricle and an interrupted inferior vena cava (IVC). It was first performed in 1978 and reported in 1984.[1]
^Kawashima Y, Kitamura S, Matsuda H, Shimazaki Y, Nakano S, Hirose H (1984). "Total cavopulmonary shunt operation in complex cardiac anomalies. A new operation". J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 87 (1): 74–81. PMID6690861.