The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 5 , Pages 1339-1340 , May 2010

Bilateral pulmonary artery banding for extremely low birth weight infants with coarctation or interruption of the aorta weighing less than 1.0 kg

  • Yoichi Kawahira, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Yoichi Kawahira, MD, Departments of Pediatric, Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka City General Hospital, 2-13-22 Miyakojimahondori, Miyakojimaku, Osaka, 534-0021, Japan.
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  • Kyoichi Nishigaki, MD
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  • Yoshito Maehata, MD

Received 4 April 2009 ,Revised 17 June 2009 ,Accepted 9 August 2009.

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 Disclosures: None.

PII: S0022-5223(09)01087-3

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.08.034

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 5 , Pages 1339-1340 , May 2010

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