Pulmonary Artery Banding

Pulmonary Artery Banding

(PA Banding) - palliative procedure in pediatric cardiac surgery performed by congenital heart surgeons in patients with congenital heart diseases and high pulmonary arterial hypertension. Today PA Banding is also a staged approach to operative correction of congenital heart defects: for example, bilateral pulmonary artery banding with PDA stenting in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome.

History

1951 - Muller and Dammann in the United States performed Pulmonary Artery Banding as palliative procedure in child with a big Ventricular Septal Defect [1]

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Pulmonary Artery Banding for palliation of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

References

1. Muller WH, Dammann JF. Treatment of certain congenital malformations of the heart by the creation of pulmonic stenosis to reduce pulmonary hypertension and excessive pulmonary blood flow: A preliminary report. Surgery Gynecol Obstet. 1952;95:213 [No Abstract, No Free Full Text]