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Repair of a Distal Ductal Origin of the Left Pulmonary Artery Associated with a Ventricular Septal Defect
Author(s) -
Gajjar Trushar P.,
Desai Neelam B.
Publication year - 2012
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.1540-8191.2012.01506.x
Subject(s) - medicine , intracardiac injection , cardiology , pulmonary artery , pulmonary hypertension , heart septal defect
A bstract Absence of the main branch of the pulmonary artery (PA) with an intracardiac defect is commonly associated with conotruncal cardiac anomaly. It is rarely associated with a ventricular septal defect and PA hypertension. We describe a surgical technique to implant an aberrant left PA to the main PA in a case of a ventricular septal defect, severe pulmonary hypertension, and distal ductal origin of the left PA. (J Card Surg 2012;27:625‐629)