Contralateral Pulmonary Hypertension Following Resuscitation of Unilateral Ductal Origin of a Pulmonary Artery: A Multi-institutional Review

• Published in: Pediatric cardiology Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 71 - 78
• Main Authors: Agrawal, Hitesh, Petit, Christopher J., Miro, Joaquim, Miranda, Carlos D., Kenny, Damien, Justino, Henri
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.01.2018; Springer
• Subjects: Angiography - methods; Blalock-Taussig Procedure - adverse effects; Cardiac Catheterization - adverse effects; Cardiac Catheterization - methods; Cardiac Surgery; Cardiology; Echocardiography - methods; Female; Humans; Hypertension, Pulmonary - etiology; Hypertension, Pulmonary - surgery; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Lung - surgery; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Original Article; Palliative Care - methods; Pulmonary Artery - abnormalities; Pulmonary Artery - surgery; Pulmonary hypertension; Retrospective Studies; Stent (Surgery); Stents - adverse effects; Treatment Outcome; Vascular Surgery; Ductal origin of pulmonary artery; BT shunt; Ductal stenting; Pulmonary hypertension

In isolated unilateral ductal origin of a pulmonary artery (DOPA), intervention to establish reperfusion of the affected lung without direct re-anastomosis may lead to pulmonary hypertension (PH) in the contralateral lung. Multicenter retrospective review of patients with unilateral DOPA, who underw...