Reverse Blalock-Taussig shunt facilitates the growth of the ascending aorta after hybrid palliation.
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.
Yun
Tae-Jin
TJ
Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Asan Medical Center, College of Medicine, University of Ulsan, Seoul, Republic of Korea. tjyun@amc.seoul.kr
Cho
Won-Chul
WC
Jung
Sung-Ho
SH
Seo
Dong-Man
DM
Goo
Hyun-Woo
HW
Kim
Young-Hwue
YH
D001011:Aorta / Q000254:growth & development*; D013504:Cardiovascular Surgical Procedures; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn