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Use of internal thoracic artery as a systemic-pulmonary artery shunt
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hokkaido Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Otaru, Japan.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|October 6, 1997
Abstract:
Numerous technical and physiologic problems have been described with conventional systemic-pulmonary artery shunts. We report the case of a 1-year-old girl in whom the internal thoracic artery was used to create a systemic-pulmonary artery shunt after the failure of a previous Blalock-Taussig shunt. The internal thoracic artery as an alternative systemic-pulmonary artery shunt may offer several potential advantages and can be used successfully to improve cyanotic heart disease in selected cases.