The large right-sided patent arterial duct: its implications for construction of systemic-to-pulmonary anastomoses

See Article Image. Although it is not ideal to construct a systemic-to-pulmonary shunt so that it feeds the pulmonary artery to which the arterial duct also attaches, it would have been possible in our patient to use a right thoracotomy and place a right-sided modified Blalock-Taussig shunt to the r...

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Published inCardiology in the young Vol. 15; no. 2; pp. 184 - 185
Main Authors Murugan, Subramanian Jothi, Agarwala, Sandeep, Weerasena, Nihal A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.04.2005
Subjects
Anastomosis, Surgical - methods
Blalock-Taussig shunt
Humans
Images in Congenital Heart Disease
Infant, Newborn
Medical imaging
Pulmonary arteries
pulmonary atresia
Pulmonary Atresia - surgery
Tetralogy of Fallot - surgery
Vascular Surgical Procedures
Veins & arteries
pulmonary atresia
Blalock-Taussig shunt
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Summary:See Article Image. Although it is not ideal to construct a systemic-to-pulmonary shunt so that it feeds the pulmonary artery to which the arterial duct also attaches, it would have been possible in our patient to use a right thoracotomy and place a right-sided modified Blalock-Taussig shunt to the right pulmonary artery, creating the pulmonary anastomosis distal to the site of insertion of the arterial duct.
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ISSN:1047-9511
1467-1107
DOI:10.1017/S1047951105000387