Hybrid Intraoperative Pulmonary Artery Stent Placement for Congenital Heart Disease

Percutaneous branch pulmonary artery (PA) stenting can be challenging, especially in patients with stenosis of the right ventricular (RV) outflow tract or tortuous PA branches. In these cases, a hybrid procedure deploying PA stent(s) during cardiac surgery provides an alternative to relieve branch PA stenosis. The Mayo Clinic Congenital Cardiac surgical database was used to identify all patients having hybrid PA stent procedures. Retrospective...