[Bilateral internal thoracic artery-left descending artery anastomosis in pediatric for the Bland-White-Garland syndrome]

Kyobu Geka. 1996 Nov;49(12):1001-4.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

BWG syndrome, a rare congenital heart disease, is a prognostically unsatisfactory disease that causes many patients to die of the myocardial ischemia within one year. Recently in pediatric BWG patients, a two coronary-system established has been the accepted treatment. We experimented positive results with a patient who was convalescing after direct closure of the left coronary arterie's orfice in the pulmonary artery and the establishment of the two-coronary-system by bilateral internal thoracic artery-left descending artery anastomosis. We report this case as a possible effective method of surgical treatment for BWG syndrome in pediatric.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Anastomosis, Surgical / methods
  • Child
  • Coronary Angiography
  • Coronary Vessel Anomalies / diagnostic imaging
  • Coronary Vessel Anomalies / surgery*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Pulmonary Artery / surgery*
  • Thoracic Arteries / surgery*