Innovative palliative surgical procedure for hypoplastic left-heart syndrome

A novel surgical procedure was performed on a 2-day-old infant with hypoplastic left-heart syndrome. It consisted of partitioning the pulmonary trunk thereby creating two channels, one leading to the pulmonary arterial system and the other to the aorta, and atrial septectomy to relieve left atrial pressure and facilitate mixing of blood. The technique avoids the use of conduits.