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Surgical Treatment of Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum
Author(s) -
DOBELL ANTHONY R.C.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.1986.tb00713.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary atresia , citation , library science , heart disease , computer science
A concept of management of pulmonary atresia in infancy has been presented. The basic theme employed is that pulmonary valvotomy or an outflow patch should be applied to most infants so that a biventricular heart is achieved in as many children as possible. Clearly, a functioning right ventricle cannot result in all instances and systemic to pulmonary shunts have an important adjunctive and sometimes primary therapeutic role. Our ability to judge right ventricular capability has been improved by preoperative assessment of segmental cavitary hypoplasia by noninvasive echocardiography and angiographic techniques.