Percutaneously adjustable pulmonary artery band

A Study on the Mortality and Complication Rates Following Percutaneously Adjustable Pulmonary Artery Banding

INTRODUCTION Pulmonary artery (PA) banding is a procedure associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. It however can effectively palliate several forms of congenital heart lesions with increased pulmonary flow. Occasionally, to obtain an optimal degree of banding following operation, readjustment of the band is inevitable. We describe the technique of adjustable PA banding to prevent th...

Adjustable Pulmonary Artery Banding

Hydraulic Remotely Adjustable Pulmonary Artery Banding

Each year approximately 2000 children are born with a form of congenital heart disease that would benefit from mechanical restriction, or banding, of the pulmonary artery. [1,2] Installing or changing the setup of the banding requires an open chest surgery and during the first 6 months of the patient’s life, physiological parameters evolve rapidly, resulting in need for frequent reoperations. M...

Telemetrically adjustable pulmonary artery banding: first application in Greece.

We describe the first application in Greece of a telemetrically adjustable device for pulmonary artery banding (FloWatch-PAB device) in a 2-month-old baby, weighing 3.6 kg, with congenital heart disease (complete atrioventricular septal defect with pulmonary hypertension). The surgical application of the device was easy, the postoperative course of the patient was smooth, and the telemetric reg...

Endovascular management performed percutaneously of isolated iliac artery aneurysms.

PURPOSE To report about the endovascular treatment of isolated iliac artery aneurysms (IIAA) with stentgraft placement and transluminal or CT-guided embolization of the internal iliac artery or the combination of these methods. METHODS AND MATERIALS Over a period of 5.6 years, 36 interventions were performed in 20 patients with 23 IIAAs. In a retrospective analysis patient records were review...