title: Experience with an adjustable pulmonary artery banding device in two cases: initial success--midterm failure.
abstract: Retraining of the left ventricle in congenitally corrected TGA or after Senning or Mustard operation is necessary when right-ventricular failure is developing and an arterial switch operation is indicated. As these hearts have little tolerance of marginal overbanding, a long-term adjustable pulmonary artery banding device would lower stress and risk of training. Although the inserted device (Osypka) allowed convenient intraoperative pressure ratio adjustment, mid-term adjustment failed due to dysfunction of the system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital, Aachen, Germany.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Däbritz
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sachweh
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tiete
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Engelhardt
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: von Bernuth
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Messmer
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004867:Equipment Design; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D018497:Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*