[Bilateral internal thoracic artery-left descending artery anastomosis in pediatric for the Bland-White-Garland syndrome].
BWG syndrome, a rare congenital heart disease, is a prognostically unsatisfactory disease that causes many patients to die of the myocardial ischemia within one year. Recently in pediatric BWG patients, a two coronary-system established has been the accepted treatment. We experimented positive results with a patient who was convalescing after direct closure of the left coronary arterie's orfice in the pulmonary artery and the establishment of the two-coronary-system by bilateral internal thoracic artery-left descending artery anastomosis. We report this case as a possible effective method of surgical treatment for BWG syndrome in pediatric.
Takahashi
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Aomori Rhousai Hospital, Hachinohe, Japan.
Odagiri
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Nagao
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Suzuki
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D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D013895:Thoracic Arteries / Q000601:surgery*