TY - JOUR
T1 - Potts Shunt for Children With Severe Pulmonary Hypertension
AU - Eghtesady, Pirooz
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2015/2/3
Y1 - 2015/2/3
N2 - Children with severe pulmonary hypertension have limited therapeutic options. To avert the consequences of right heart failure, the Potts shunt has been proposed as a means to off-load the right ventricle, improving overall cardiac output at the expense of lower saturation and oxygen delivery to lower extremities. In the following, the details of the procedure are described along with a modification (with interposition graft) that could perhaps facilitate the performance of the procedure for patients as an alternative palliative intervention to lung transplantation.
AB - Children with severe pulmonary hypertension have limited therapeutic options. To avert the consequences of right heart failure, the Potts shunt has been proposed as a means to off-load the right ventricle, improving overall cardiac output at the expense of lower saturation and oxygen delivery to lower extremities. In the following, the details of the procedure are described along with a modification (with interposition graft) that could perhaps facilitate the performance of the procedure for patients as an alternative palliative intervention to lung transplantation.
KW - ECMO
KW - Lung transplantation
KW - Potts shunt
KW - Pulmonary hypertension
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84962345447&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1053/j.optechstcvs.2016.02.003
DO - 10.1053/j.optechstcvs.2016.02.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84962345447
SN - 1522-2942
VL - 20
SP - 293
EP - 305
JO - Operative Techniques in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
JF - Operative Techniques in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
IS - 3
M1 - 390
ER -