The technic of banding the pulmonary artery is described.
Twenty infants with intractable cardiac failure secondary to interventricular septal defects have had banding with one operative and one late death.
The operation is palliative, and definitive surgery probably must be done when the child is 3 to 5 years of age.
Banding the pulmonary artery is a relatively safe procedure but the mortality of banding plus ventricular closure and unbanding remains to be evaluated.
A case of erythema multiforme associated with septicemia due to pseudomonas in a premature infant is reported. A review of the recent literature indicates that rare cases of neonatal sepsis have been encountered in which erythema multiforme was associated with streptococcal, staphylococcal, and pseudomonas infections. It is, therefore, concluded that the appearance of this lesion in the newborn or premature infant should be considered a danger signal of possible sepsis.
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