title: The incisional pulmonary artery band.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90095-1741, USA.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Laks
authors.forename: J N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Odim
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Sadeghi
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Allada
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000601:surgery*