1. Staged rehabilitation of ductal origin of the left pulmonary artery in an infant Fallot's tetralogy.
- Author
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Peirone A, Lee KJ, Yoo SJ, Musewe N, Smallhorn J, and Benson L
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- Abnormalities, Multiple diagnosis, Angioplasty, Balloon instrumentation, Angioplasty, Balloon methods, Aorta diagnostic imaging, Aorta surgery, Balloon Occlusion methods, Blood Flow Velocity, Cardiac Catheterization, Cardiac Surgical Procedures methods, Combined Modality Therapy, Echocardiography, Doppler, Echocardiography, Transesophageal, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Heart Defects, Congenital diagnosis, Heart Defects, Congenital therapy, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Magnetic Resonance Angiography, Oxygen Consumption physiology, Pulmonary Artery diagnostic imaging, Pulmonary Artery surgery, Risk Assessment, Treatment Outcome, Abnormalities, Multiple therapy, Aorta abnormalities, Pulmonary Artery abnormalities, Stents, Tetralogy of Fallot diagnosis, Tetralogy of Fallot therapy
- Abstract
Isolation of a branch pulmonary artery from ductal closure is an unusual finding in patients with tetralogy of Fallot. A case report of a newborn is presented where the closing arterial duct was balloon-dilated and stented to reestablish blood supply to the affected lung as a strategy of improving systemic saturations and promoting the growth of the hiliar branch pulmonary artery. Five months after the initial palliation, complete surgical repair with stent removal was successfully achieved., (Copyright 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.)
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- 2003
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