Intravascular Stents in Congenital Heart Disease: Short- and Long-Term Results From a Large Single-Center Experience

Objectives. This report describes the results of the Food and Drug Administration’s phase 1 and 2 clinical trials of intravascular stents at Texas Children’s Hospital. Background. Since the late 1980s, intravascular stent implantation for the treatment of arterial and venous stenoses in congenital heart disease has been highly successful. Methods. Stents were placed in postoperative pulmonary artery (PA) stenoses, congenital PA stenoses or...