Posterior reduction aortoplasty for left pulmonary artery compression after Norwood procedure
Ashvini Menon1, Timothy Jones, David Barron
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|March 29, 2011
Abstract:
All patients following the Norwood I procedure have a very large ascending aorta. This can lead to extrinsic compression of the surrounding vessels. We report a case of left pulmonary artery compression secondary to an aneurysmal neo-aorta and describe a technique of posterior reduction aortoplasty to decompress the left pulmonary artery.


