Efficacy of intraluminal pulmonary artery banding Vitaly V. Piluiko, MD, Jeffrey A. Poynter, BS, Hassan Nemeh, MD, Ronald L. Thomas, PhD, Thomas J. Forbes, MD, Ralph E. Delius, MD, Henry L. Walters, MD The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Volume 129, Issue 3, Pages 544-550 (March 2005) DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2004.08.053 Copyright © 2005 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 A transverse incision is made in the anterior hemicircumference of the MPA. The fenestrated circular patch is sutured to the posterior wall of the MPA. The anterior MPA hemicircumference is closed by sandwiching the remainder of the patch between the edges of the MPA arteriotomy, thereby completing the fixation of the IL-PAB. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2005 129, 544-550DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2004.08.053) Copyright © 2005 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions