title: [Bilateral internal thoracic artery-left descending artery anastomosis in pediatric for the Bland-White-Garland syndrome].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Aomori Rhousai Hospital, Hachinohe, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Odagiri
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nagao
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suzuki
mesh_terms: 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*