Central Shunting for Tetralogy of Fallot After Original Blalock-Taussig Shunt in a 34-Year-Old Woman
Journal Title: Journal of Surgery Research and Practice - Year 2023, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
The Blalock-Taussig (BT) shunt was first used to treat the tetralogy of Fallot in 1946. Since then, it has undergone improvements to create a short circuit in the pulmonary artery using an artificial blood vessel. The prognosis after palliative surgery alone is poor; hence, there is a need for radical surgery to improve the long-term prognosis. However, for various reasons, some patients have undergone the Blalock surgery alone without any other therapeutic interventions. In this report, we describe a case of a central shunt surgery performed to improve cyanosis in a patient who had been followed up for a long time without radical surgery after receiving an original BT shunt.
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Keisuke Nakanishi, Shiori Kawasaki, Atsushi Amano, Minoru Tabata
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- EP ID EP715203
- DOI https://doi.org/10.46889/JSRP-2023.4107
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