Early Clinical Results of the Telemetric Adjustable Pulmonary Artery Banding FloWatch-PAB

Early clinical results of the telemetric adjustable pulmonary artery banding FloWatch-PAB.

BACKGROUND Adjustment of pulmonary artery banding (PAB) may be a challenging procedure in complex congenital heart defects. Whatever the technique used, subsequent re-operations are frequently needed to control the pulmonary blood flow or pressures. OBJECTIVE To report the efficacy of a new telemetric adjustable PAB (FloWatch-PAB) operated with the help of an external control unit that transm...

Adjustable Pulmonary Artery Banding

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...

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...

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...