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A Pulmonary Trunk Banding Model of Pressure Overload Induced Right Ventricular Hypertrophy and Failure
Published on: November 29, 2018
Pulmonary artery banding before Norwood procedure
Christian Pizarro1, William I Norwood
1Nemours Cardiac Center, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware 19899, USA. cpizarro@nemours.org
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|March 21, 2003
Abstract:
Described here is the use of bilateral pulmonary artery banding as a means to achieve effective restoration of adequate systemic blood flow before a Norwood procedure in two newborns with hypoplastic left heart syndrome who presented after birth with a severe imbalance of Qp/Qs and multiorgan system dysfunction despite usual pharmacologic and ventilatory strategies.

