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Unsuccessful two-stage correction despite appropriate surgery in a case with disconnection (so-called absence) of the right pulmonaty artery
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 August 2008
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A right-sided modified Blalock-Taussig anastomosis was created using a 5 mm Gore-Tex tube in a 4½ month old infant with unilateral “absence” of the right pulmonary artery. Wide patency of the shunt was confirmed shortly after by angiography, but rarefaction of the peripheral right pulmonary arteries was seen at the age of 2½ years, when corrective surgery was performed. Postoperative hypoperfusion of the right lung, along with severe pulmonary vascular abnormalities seen in a lung biopsy, indicated failure of the two-stage correction in spite of appropriate surgery.
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