Jorge L Cervantes-Salazar1, José A García-Montes2, Henry Peralta-Santos1, Diego B Ortega-Zhindón1, Juan Calderón-Colmenero3. 1. Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Congenital Heart Disease, National Institute of Cardiology Ignacio Chávez, Mexico City, México. 2. Department of Interventional Cardiology in Congenital Heart Disease, National Institute of Cardiology Ignacio Chávez, Mexico City, México. 3. Department of Pediatric Cardiology, National Institute of Cardiology Ignacio Chávez, Mexico City, México.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Unilateral abscence of pulmonary artery is a rare congenital heart disease. If these anomaly is unrecognized and treated the risk of pulmonary hypertension in the contralateral lung can be lethal for the patients. AIMS: To report the successful sequential hybrid-surgical approach of two cases of rescue of pulmonary branches only fed by ductus arteriosus. MATERIALS & METHODS: Description of two rare cases of absence of a unilateral pulmonary branch successfully treated in our institution. RESULTS, DISCUSSSIION AND CONCLUSION: The timely identification of these cases and the strategic planning of interventional and surgical hybrid sequential treatment of these rare cases is effective.
BACKGROUND: Unilateral abscence of pulmonary artery is a rare congenital heart disease. If these anomaly is unrecognized and treated the risk of pulmonary hypertension in the contralateral lung can be lethal for the patients. AIMS: To report the successful sequential hybrid-surgical approach of two cases of rescue of pulmonary branches only fed by ductus arteriosus. MATERIALS & METHODS: Description of two rare cases of absence of a unilateral pulmonary branch successfully treated in our institution. RESULTS, DISCUSSSIION AND CONCLUSION: The timely identification of these cases and the strategic planning of interventional and surgical hybrid sequential treatment of these rare cases is effective.