title: Surgical correction of isolated unilateral absence of right pulmonary artery.
abstract: A 2-year-old girl with isolated unilateral absence of right pulmonary artery is described. Catheterization at 5 months demonstrated hypoplastic right pulmonary artery by pulmonary venous wedge angiography, and the patient underwent right Blalock-Taussig shunt and angioplasty of right pulmonary artery with autologous pericardial roll as an initial step. At 2 years, she underwent anastomosis of right pulmonary artery to main pulmonary artery with an autologous pericardial tube. Postoperative computed tomography showed a patent reconstructed right pulmonary artery.
authors.affiliation: Department of [corrected] Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8666, Japan. shiramat@hij.twmu.ac.jp
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hiramatsu
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Komori
authors.forename: Yoshitaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Okamura
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takeuchi
authors.forename: Syoichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shibuta
mesh_terms: D017130:Angioplasty; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010496:Pericardium / Q000637:transplantation*; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures