Staged hybrid left pulmonary artery rehabilitation in post-fontan left pulmonary artery hypoplasia.
Left pulmonary artery hypoplasia in the setting of Fontan circulation predisposes to pulmonary artery discontinuity. We describe a novel approach to correct post-Fontan left pulmonary artery discontinuity by a strategy to produce isolated left pulmonary artery growth, followed by a catheter-based reincorporation of the left pulmonary artery into the Fontan circuit.
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
John W
JW
Scott
John M
JM
Karamichalis
Frank
F
Ing
Lance
L
Shirai
David
D
Bichell
D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D018729:Fontan Procedure; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011652:Pulmonary Circulation