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Dilatable banding of a Blalock-Taussig shunt
Masahide Chikada1, Akihiko Sekiguchi, Shinichi Oho
1Division of Cardiovascular Surgery and Cardiology, National Children's Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. chikada@nch.go.jp
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|July 18, 2002
Abstract:
Dilatable banding has been used in various situations. Sometimes Blalock-Taussig shunt banding is performed to prevent pulmonary overcirculation. Recently several reports have described dilatable pulmonary artery banding. We modified these methods for flow control of a Blalock-Taussig shunt. We report the case of a neonate with truncus arteriosus in which this technique was used.