title: Pulmonary artery banding for truncus arteriosus in the first year of life.
abstract: Results of pulmonary artery banding (PAB) for truncus arteriosus (TA) in infancy are reviewed in 15 children between 1957 and 1974. There were ten hospital and one late deaths (73%). A policy of early correction of severely symptomatic infants with TA was adopted in 1974. Since October, 1974, four infants with TA and one with hemitruncus had a complete correction. Three of these are surviving 22, 17, and 9 months after the operation. Their weight at operation was 4.7, 6.0, and 3.5 kg.
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000502:physiology / Q000601:surgery*; D014339:Truncus Arteriosus, Persistent / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014655:Vascular Resistance