Telemetrically adjustable pulmonary artery banding: first application in Greece.

Pii: S1569-9293(02)00014-2

The main problem encountered in pulmonary artery banding is the difficulty in determining the optimal perimeter of the band, and sometime repeated surgical operations are required to adjust the band perimeter in order to control the pulmonary blood flow. To overcome these difficulties EndoArt S.A. (Lausanne, Switzerland) developed an externally adjustable, telemetrically controlled device for p...

Doppler-guided regulation of a telemetrically operated adjustable pulmonary banding system.

OBJECTIVES We report on the Doppler-assessed regulation of an adjustable pulmonary artery band (PAB) in an animal model and in our first group of patients. BACKGROUND Indications for pulmonary artery banding have expanded to include patients requiring a late arterial switch. A telemetry-operated, fully implantable, adjustable PAB system (FloWatch- PAB, Endoart SA, Lausanne, Switzerland) has b...

Adjustable Pulmonary Artery Banding

Indications, Results and Mortality of Pulmonary Artery Banding Procedure: a Brief Review and Five- year Experiences

Background Pulmonary artery banding (PAB) is a technique of palliative surgical therapy used by congenital heart surgeons as a staged approach to operative correction of congenital heart defects. Materials and Methods We report 5- year experiences from January 2011 to January 2016 of Imam Reza Hospital center (a tertiary referral hospital in Mashhad city, North East of Iran) that consist of 50 ...

A Study on the Mortality and Complication Rates Following Percutaneously Adjustable Pulmonary Artery Banding

INTRODUCTION Pulmonary artery (PA) banding is a procedure associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. It however can effectively palliate several forms of congenital heart lesions with increased pulmonary flow. Occasionally, to obtain an optimal degree of banding following operation, readjustment of the band is inevitable. We describe the technique of adjustable PA banding to prevent th...