The incisional pulmonary artery band.
Occasionally early definitive repair of congenital heart disease carries prohibitive mortality, and interval pulmonary artery banding is necessary to protect the pulmonary arterial bed and improve systemic perfusion or prepare a systemic left ventricle for a later arterial switch operation. We describe our technique for effectively banding the pulmonary artery.
Laks
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Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90095-1741, USA.
Odim
J N
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Sadeghi
A M
AM
Allada
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D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000601:surgery*