| Autor: |
M, Ledesma-Velasco, C J, Flores-Mendoza, J L, Acosta-Valdez, J, Munayer-Calderón, J L, Salgado-Escobar, L R, Quintero-Rodríguez, C N, Soberanis-Torruco |
| Rok vydání: |
1990 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Archivos de investigacion medica. 21(1) |
| ISSN: |
0066-6769 |
| Popis: |
Percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty has been used successfully in the treatment of valvular and vascular stenosis. This article describes our experience with this technique to improve pulmonary blood flow in a patient with a severely stenotic Blalock-Taussig (B-T) systemic-to-right pulmonary artery anastomosis, with improvement in oxygen peripheric saturation from 33 to 78% immediately postdilatation and 69% three months later. Hemoglobin decreased from 20.4 to 18.9 gm/dl and hematocrit from 64% to 58.5%. In conclusion we think that this technique is an alternative instead of cardiac surgery, in these cases the procedure is only palliative. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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