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Percutaneous upsizing of a Blalock-Taussig shunt
Aphrodite Tzifa1, Eric Rosenthal, Shakeel Qureshi
1Department of Congenital Heart Disease, Evelina Children's Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom. Aphrodite.Tzifa@kcl.ac.uk
Abstract:
Percutaneous upsizing of surgically placed Blalock-Taussig shunts is an uncommon practice. We report the case of an 8-month-old infant with single-ventricle physiology, who - due to comorbidities - was deemed unsuitable to proceed with Glenn operation. The 3.5-millimetre Blalock-Taussig shunt was stented successfully with a 5-millimetre pre-mounted stent, resulting in an increase in shunt diameter and oxygen saturation by nearly 30% and 10%, respectively.
