Effect of Blalock Taussig shunt on clinical parameters, left ventricular function and pulmonary arteries.

Effect of Blalock Taussig shunt on clinical parameters, left ventricular function and pulmonary arteries.

Twenty children (mean age 3.25 years) with congenital cyanotic heart disease undergoing modified left Blalock-Taussig (BT) shunt were studied. The mean follow-up period was 9.5 months (range 6 months to 1 year). The shunt was performed for cyanotic spells in 15 (75%) and hypoplastic pulmo...

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Main Authors: Kulkarni H, Rajani R, Dalvi B, Gupta K, Vora A, Kelkar P
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 1995-04-01
Series:Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
Subjects:
Blood Flow Velocity
Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation
methods
Child
Preschool
Comparative Study
Echocardiography
Female
Heart Defects
Congenital
physiopathology
surgery
ultrasonography
Human
Infant
Male
Oxygen Consumption
Polytetrafluoroethylene
Pulmonary Artery
Pulmonary Atresia
Subclavian Artery
Treatment Outcome
Ultrasonography
Doppler
Ventricular Function
Left
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