Balloon dilatation of pulmonary artery banding: Norwegian experience over more than 20 years

Balloon dilatation of pulmonary artery banding: Norwegian experience over more than 20 years.

AIMS The purpose of this paper was to present the results of a simple modification of the suture technique for pulmonary artery banding (PAB), which allows for stepwise debanding by use of balloon catheter. METHODS AND RESULTS During the period 1985-2007, PAB operations were performed in 227 children at Rikshospitalet. Of these children, 14.5% (n = 33) were treated by balloon dilatation of th...

Pulmonary Artery Banding

BANDING of the pulmonary artery has been proposed as a therapeutic procedure for patients with a large left-to-right shunt and pulmonary artery hypertension not amenable to complete correction. It was theorized that by increasing the resistance to outflow from the right ventricle, and thus lowering the pulmonary artery pressure, the size of the left-to-right shunt would diminish, the high outpu...

[Pulmonary artery banding].

BANDING of the pulmonary artery has been proposed as a therapeutic procedure for patients with a large left-to-right shunt and pulmonary artery hypertension not amenable to complete correction. It was theorized that by increasing the resistance to outflow from the right ventricle, and thus lowering the pulmonary artery pressure, the size of the left-to-right shunt would diminish, the high outpu...

Adjustable Pulmonary Artery Banding

Banding of the pulmonary artery.

The results of banding of the pulmonary artery in 111 children with cardiac malformations associated with excessive pulmonary blood flow are presented. Thirty-three of these children died, eleven either of late band complications or after a corrective operation. Patients with ventricular septal defect represent the largest group of malformation among the 111 patients. The overall mortality for ...