title: Preoperative management with nitrogen inhalation therapy for a low-birth weight infant with tetralogy of Fallot and absent pulmonary valve.
abstract: Tetralogy of Fallot and absent pulmonary valve (TOF/APV) is a rare congenital heart disease. Patients with TOF/APV with severe clinical symptoms require surgical intervention for cardiac abnormality in the neonatal period, but the preoperative conditioning for surgical treatment is extremely complicated. We experienced a low-birth-weight patient with TOF/APV who was successfully treated by radical surgery at 63 days of age after long-term intensive management using nitrogen inhalation therapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka-City 812-8582, Japan. dadan@pediatr.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Hazumu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nagata
authors.forename: Kenichiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamamura
authors.forename: Kazuyuki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ihara
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis; D001034:Apgar Score; D002585:Cesarean Section; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D007223:Infant; D007230:Infant, Low Birth Weight; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration; D011247:Pregnancy; D011300:Preoperative Care; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D018633:Pulmonary Atresia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D013771:Tetralogy of Fallot / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal
chemical_list: D009584:Nitrogen