Baharestani Bahadour, Omrani Gholamreza, Afjaei Reza Sadat, Ghivetag Nader, Adambeigh Ahmed, Sharifi Mehrzad
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Rajaei Heart Center, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.
World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2011 Oct 1;2(4):660-1. doi: 10.1177/2150135111415710.
From 2004 to 2008, 64 infants with large ventricular septal defects were managed using a two-stage surgical approach. In the first stage, banding of the main pulmonary trunk was performed. The defect was then repaired months later. Debanding of pulmonary artery was accomplished without the need for pulmonary artery reconstruction.