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Abstract
The results of pulmonary arterial banding in 238 infants, 12 percent of the infants
admitted to the New England Regional Infant Cardiac Program, is reviewed. Overall
survival to age 1 year was 63 percent. Survival was least likely (37 percent) in those
who required banding within the 1st month of life. Additional surgery decreased the
survival rate in those operated on after 1 month of age. Infants with anomalies for
which no corrective surgical procedure is available (23 of 238) have only a 30 percent
chance of survival. Those with lesions correctable within the 1st year (133 of 238)
have a 74 percent survival rate; 52 percent (82 of 238) of those for whom a curative
operation is available after the 1st year survive. These pulmonary arterial banding
data coupled with results of primary correction should provide the data base required
for an intelligent decision in respect to appropriate surgical treatment of infants
with critical heart disease.
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Publication history
Accepted:
April 2,
1975
Footnotes
☆This study was supported by Project 260 and MC-R 250197-02-0, Maternal and Child Health Service, Health Service and Mental Health Administration of the U. S. Public Health Service and by Grant 5 TO 1 HE 05855-08 from the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Program Project Grant HL-10436.
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© 1975 Published by Elsevier Inc.
