Complete atrioventricular septal defect: Outcome of pulmonary artery banding improved by adjustable device

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 ...

Adjustable Pulmonary Artery Banding

Pulmonary artery banding and subsequent repair in ventricular septal defect.

or complicated ventricular septal defects. The main indication for the procedure was intractable congestive cardiac failure not responding to medical therapy. There was a I2 per cent mortality. Complications resulting from the operation are recorded. Twenty of these children have subsequently undergone repair of the ventricular septal defect and reconstruction of the pulmonary artery with a mor...

Transection with pseudoaneurysm formation of the pulmonary trunk after placement of an adjustable pulmonary artery banding device (FloWatch-PAB) in a patient with residual muscular ventricular septal defect.

FIGURE 1. Two-dimensional echocardiographic analysis with Doppler scann artery (PA) band device in the lumen of the pulmonary artery. RA, Right atrium From Congenital Heart Surgery, Guy’s & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. Disclosures: None. Received for publication Jan 20, 2009; revisions received Feb 7, 2009; accepted for publication March 2, 2009; available ahead of pr...

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...