Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
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Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg · Apr 2015
Hybrid branch pulmonary artery stent placement in adults with congenital heart disease.
Valuable treatment modalities for branch pulmonary artery (BPA) stenoses are surgical patch angioplasty, percutaneous BPA stenting and hybrid stent placement. The purpose of this study was to report our institutional experience with hybrid stent placement to relieve BPA stenoses. ⋯ Hybrid intraoperative BPA stent placement is safe and effective and can be used as an alternative for surgical patch angioplasty or if percutaneous BPA stenting is not feasible. Short- to mid-term results are good.