Diminution and closure of large ventricular septal defects after pulmonary artery banding

Diminution and closure of large ventricular septal defects after pulmonary artery banding.

In a period of 15 years (1957-1972), 114 infants (51 males, 63 females) with the diagnosis of ventricular septal defect and congestive heart failure underwent pulmonary artery banding at The Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston. A second study performed in 55 of these revealed the left-to-right shunt through the ventricular septal defect to be greatly diminished in seven and completely ...

Pulmonary atrial banding in babies with large ventricular septal defects.

Spontaneous closure of ventricular septal defect after banding of pulmonary artery.

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 ...

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...