Pulmonary artery banding; adequacy and long-term outcome

Feasibility and related outcome of intraluminal pulmonary artery banding.

OBJECTIVES This retrospective study evaluated the feasibility and related outcome of intraluminal pulmonary artery banding (I-PAB). METHODS Thirty-two children underwent I-PAB between July 2006 and April 2014. The median age and weight were 60 days (range: 5 days to 4.2 years) and 3.7 kg (range: 2.6-13.0 kg), respectively. Cardiac diagnoses included single ventricle morphology (n = 11), compl...

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...

Adjustable Pulmonary Artery Banding

Banding of the pulmonary artery.

The results of banding of the pulmonary artery in 111 children with cardiac malformations associated with excessive pulmonary blood flow are presented. Thirty-three of these children died, eleven either of late band complications or after a corrective operation. Patients with ventricular septal defect represent the largest group of malformation among the 111 patients. The overall mortality for ...