Experience of Performing Systemic-to-Pulmonary Artery Shunt in Patients with Univentricular Heart Physiology and Depleted Pulmonary Blood Flow
Elnur Imanov,
Ivan V. Dziuryi,
Iaroslav P. Truba
et al.
Abstract:Among patients with congenital heart disease diagnosed in infancy, 7.7% of infants have anatomical variants with functional single ventricle physiology which is often accompanied by depleted pulmonary blood flow. The type of these defects is clinically associated with cyanosis, in most cases caused not by mixing of blood at the level of the heart chambers, but by the presence of ductal-dependent pulmonary blood flow, which requires urgent surgical intervention.
The aim. To evaluate the immediate and long-term… Show more
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