Pulmonary Artery Banding for Neonates and Early Infants with Low Body Weight

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

Pulmonary artery banding. A treatment for infants with intractable cardiac failure due to interventricular septal defects.

INFANTS born with interventricular septal defects may encounter little difficulty during the first year of life. Although a number develop varying degrees of cardiac failure, most of these respond to digitalization so that by the end of the first year retarded growth and cardiac failure are no longer significant problems. A few, however, within the first weeks of life, develop cardiac failure t...

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 ...