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Ann Thorac Surg 1999;67:1813-1814
© 1999 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

How to Do It

The incisional pulmonary artery band

Hillel Laks, MDa, Jonah N.K. Odim, MD, PhDa, Ali M. Sadeghi, MD, PhDa, Vivek Allada, MDb

a Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
b Division of Pediatric Cardiology, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA

Accepted for publication December 21, 1998.

Address reprint requests to Dr Laks, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine, Box 951741, 10833 Le Conte Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1741

Occasionally early definitive repair of congenital heart disease carries prohibitive mortality, and interval pulmonary artery banding is necessary to protect the pulmonary arterial bed and improve systemic perfusion or prepare a systemic left ventricle for a later arterial switch operation. We describe our technique for effectively banding the pulmonary artery.




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