title: Reverse Blalock-Taussig shunt facilitates the growth of the ascending aorta after hybrid palliation.
abstract: A 13-day-old baby girl with tricuspid atresia (IIc), who was prematurely born at 32 weeks and 5 days of gestation and weighed 2.2 kg, underwent bilateral pulmonary artery banding, ductal stenting, and reverse Blalock-Taussig shunt. Cardiac computerized tomography at 4 months postoperatively showed that the ascending aorta outgrew the somatic growth, presumably thanks to the forward flow through the reverse Blalock-Taussig shunt. At 6 months postoperatively, the patient underwent a successful second-stage operation.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Asan Medical Center, College of Medicine, University of Ulsan, Seoul, Republic of Korea. tjyun@amc.seoul.kr
authors.forename: Tae-Jin
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Yun
authors.forename: Won-Chul
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Sung-Ho
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: Dong-Man
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Seo
authors.forename: Hyun-Woo
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Goo
authors.forename: Young-Hwue
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D001011:Aorta / Q000254:growth & development*; D013504:Cardiovascular Surgical Procedures; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn