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Very small pulmonary arteries: central end-to-side shunt.
Annals of Thoracic Surgery 1991 November
Between 1980 and 1989, 28 patients with pulmonary atresia, ventricular septal defect, and very small pulmonary arteries with major aortopulmonary collateral arteries underwent direct central end-to-side shunts as staging procedures. Age range was 2 months to 32 years, with 19 patients less than 1 year of age. Pulmonary artery diameters ranged from 1 to 4 mm, with 24 less than 3 mm. Two patients (7%; 70% confidence limits, 2% to 16%) died after the shunt, and there were two further deaths after subsequent staging or correction. Acute shunt complications included congestive cardiac failure (mild to moderate, n = 8; severe, n = 3) and endocarditis (n = 1). Proximal right pulmonary artery stenoses have occurred in 75% of patients and left pulmonary artery stenoses, in 50%. Satisfactory pulmonary artery growth was achieved, however, in 16 of 24 hospital survivors investigated postoperatively. Twelve patients have proceeded through unifocalization to biventricular repair (in 2 the ventricular septal defect patch was subsequently fenestrated) with one death (8.3%; 70% confidence limits, 1% to 25%). Eight patients are still in staging, and 4 have been excluded from the program because of inadequate unifocalization. The direct central end-to-side shunt has proven satisfactory in attaining pulmonary artery growth in patients with very small central pulmonary arteries.
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