Chronic and adjustable pulmonary artery banding

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...

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...

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...