A method of transcutaneously adjustable pulmonary artery banding for staged left ventricular retraining

Adjustable Pulmonary Artery Banding

Hydraulic Remotely Adjustable Pulmonary Artery Banding

Each year approximately 2000 children are born with a form of congenital heart disease that would benefit from mechanical restriction, or banding, of the pulmonary artery. [1,2] Installing or changing the setup of the banding requires an open chest surgery and during the first 6 months of the patient’s life, physiological parameters evolve rapidly, resulting in need for frequent reoperations. M...

A novel adjustable pulmonary artery banding system for hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

OBJECTIVE Hypoplastic left heart syndrome remains a challenge for worldwide surgeons. Initial palliation employing bilateral pulmonary artery banding along with ductal stent implantation and atrial septostomy has been proposed as an alternative approach. However, the surgically placed bands are fixed and may become inadequate after sternum closure or with somatic growth of the patient. We descr...

Pulmonary artery banding for ventricular septal defect.

It is well known that there is a very high mortality in children with ventricular septal defect, who develop heart failure in early infancy (Marquis, 1950; Boesen and Vendel, 1955). Morgan, Griffiths, and Blumenthal (1960) reviewed 125 children up to 14 years of age with ventricular septal defect. Of these, 17 developed heart failure in the first six months of life, 10 dying before their first ...

Telemetrically adjustable pulmonary artery banding: first application in Greece.

We describe the first application in Greece of a telemetrically adjustable device for pulmonary artery banding (FloWatch-PAB device) in a 2-month-old baby, weighing 3.6 kg, with congenital heart disease (complete atrioventricular septal defect with pulmonary hypertension). The surgical application of the device was easy, the postoperative course of the patient was smooth, and the telemetric reg...