Late cardiodynamics following correction of ventricular septal defects with previous pulmonary artery banding

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 atrial banding in babies with large ventricular septal defects.

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 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...

Pulmonary artery banding in isolated or complicated ventricular septal defects. Results and effects on growth.

Experience with patients undergoing pulmonary artery banding for control of substantial left-toright shunt associated with large ventricular septal defects has been reviewed in order to assess the effects of banding and the growth patterns of the subjects in relation to changes in cardiac loading. The series covers a periodfrom I960 through I968. All 22 infants studied had large ventricular sep...