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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 30, 146-150, Copyright © 1980 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
JS Donahoo, TJ Gardner, K Zahka and BS Kidd
Thirty infants with various types of cyanotic congenitl heart disease
underwent systemic-pulmonary artery shunts with a microporous
polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) graft between May, 1976, and July, 1979.
Sixteen of them were less than 1 month old, and the average age of the
neonates was 5.3 days. There were no operative deaths and 5 hospital
deaths, 2 related directly to the shunt. Five patients required early
revision of the shunt. Relief from cyanosis was achieved in each patient.
Twenty-five patients have been followed up to three and one- half years.
There have been 2 late deaths and one late occlusion of the shunt. One
patient outgrew the shunt and required secondary shunting procedures. Three
of 30 patients have evidenced mild congestive heart failure, which has
responded to digitalis. Because of the reliability and excellent late
patency of the PTFE prosthesis, we consider it to be superior to a central
or Potts shunt for relief from cyanosis in the neonate and infant, and as
reliable as a Blalock-Taussig shunt.
ARTICLES
Systemic-Pulmonary shunts inneonates and infants using microporous expanded polytetrafluoroethylene: immediate and late results
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