Pulmonary artery banding in the current era: Is it still useful?

Pulmonary Artery Banding is Still a Valuable Option

In this work, Corno (1) presents long-term outcomes in a small group of patients with multiple ventricular septal defects treated with adjustable pulmonary artery banding (PAB). The results were satisfactory, with few complications. Despite recent progress in pediatric cardiac surgery, surgical management of very small babies with true Swiss cheese septum and cardiac failure is still challengin...

Pulmonary artery banding: still a valuable option in developing countries?

OBJECTIVE We examined whether the socio-economic circumstances of a developing country justify pulmonary artery banding (PAB) for the deferral of perceived high-risk patients requiring biventricular repair. METHODS A retrospective cohort analysis was done on 143 consecutive patients with ventricular anatomy suitable for a biventricular repair, who had a pulmonary artery band applied between 1...

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