Pulmonary artery banding for truncus arteriosus in the first year of life.

Results of pulmonary artery banding (PAB) for truncus arteriosus (TA) in infancy are reviewed in 15 children between 1957 and 1974. There were ten hospital and one late deaths (73%). A policy of early correction of severely symptomatic infants with TA was adopted in 1974. Since October, 1974, four infants with TA and one with hemitruncus had a complete correction. Three of these are surviving 22, 17, and 9 months after the operation. Their weight at operation was 4.7, 6.0, and 3.5 kg.