Use of stents for correction of pulmonary artery branch stenosis

We present a patient with tetralogy of Fallot who developed bilateral branch pulmonary artery stenosis following surgical repair that was refractory to balloon dilatation. Simultaneous stenting of both pulmonary arteries produced a good result.

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Autores principales: Mercieca, V, Grech, V, DeGiovanni, JV
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2004
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3232527/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22368640
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spelling pubmed-32325272012-02-22 Use of stents for correction of pulmonary artery branch stenosis Mercieca, V Grech, V DeGiovanni, JV Images Paediatr Cardiol Original Article We present a patient with tetralogy of Fallot who developed bilateral branch pulmonary artery stenosis following surgical repair that was refractory to balloon dilatation. Simultaneous stenting of both pulmonary arteries produced a good result. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2004 /pmc/articles/PMC3232527/ /pubmed/22368640 Text en Copyright: © Images in Paediatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Use of stents for correction of pulmonary artery branch stenosis
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title_short Use of stents for correction of pulmonary artery branch stenosis
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