Bilateral Branch Pulmonary Artery Banding as a Bridge to Decision/Preoperative Optimization of High-Risk Neonates With Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

Abstract

We present our experience with bilateral branch pulmonary artery banding as a bridge to decision/optimization of hemodynamics, followed by standard Norwood stage I palliation in very high-risk infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

Keywords

hypoplastic left heart syndrome heart failure palliation congenital heart surgery

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