Pulmonary arterial banding
Pulmonary artery banding, using conventional and absorbable bands, has been performed as initial palliation in premature infants with low body weight and/or severe associated non-cardiac congenital anomalies. The lesions requiring such treatment include unbalanced complete atrioventricular septal defects, multiple muscular septal defects, and those with common atriums.14-25,38 These are found in either sub-set.