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Venous duct stenting in a 940-gram infant with infradiaphragmatic total anomalous pulmonary venous return.

Kyle D HopeSubhrajit LahiriAthar M Qureshi
Published in: Cardiology in the young (2020)
An extremely low birthweight infant (940 grams) with a rare variant of obstructed infracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous return underwent stenting of the venous duct as bridge to later surgical intervention. While technically challenging, this procedure represents a bridge to surgery for infants who might otherwise not be surgical candidates.
Keyphrases
  • minimally invasive
  • pulmonary hypertension
  • randomized controlled trial
  • antiplatelet therapy
  • coronary artery bypass
  • gram negative
  • multidrug resistant