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The incisional pulmonary artery band
H Laks1, J N Odim, A M Sadeghi
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90095-1741, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|July 3, 1999
Abstract:
Occasionally early definitive repair of congenital heart disease carries prohibitive mortality, and interval pulmonary artery banding is necessary to protect the pulmonary arterial bed and improve systemic perfusion or prepare a systemic left ventricle for a later arterial switch operation. We describe our technique for effectively banding the pulmonary artery.