Rehabilitation of pulmonary arteries: Hybrid treatment in the unilateral absence of the pulmonary artery.

BACKGROUND

Unilateral abscence of pulmonary artery is a rare congenital heart disease. If these anomaly is unrecognized and treated the risk of pulmonary hypertension in the contralateral lung can be lethal for the patients.

AIMS: To report the successful sequential hybrid-surgical approach of two cases of rescue of pulmonary branches only fed by ductus arteriosus.

MATERIALS &

METHODS

Description of two rare cases of absence of a unilateral pulmonary branch successfully treated in our institution.

RESULTS, DISCUSSSIION AND

CONCLUSION

The timely identification of these cases and the strategic planning of interventional and surgical hybrid sequential treatment of these rare cases is effective.