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Ductal stenting for restricted pulmonary blood flow in neonates: 15 years on but still a very limited place in clinical practice
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Dr J L Gibbs, E Floor, Jubilee Wing, Leeds General Infirmary, Great George Street, Leeds LS1 3EX, UK; jlgibbs@mac.com
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Neonates with duct-dependent pulmonary circulation are traditionally treated with a surgical aortopulmonary shunt—in effect, a synthetic duct which will not close of its own accord. It seems eminently logical to try to keep the duct itself open rather than to resort to a surgical equivalent. While prostaglandins are almost always highly effective at maintaining duct patency medically in the short term, they become less reliable and have more side effects if given long term. Maintaining duct patency by stent implantation at cardiac catheterisation was first described in the early 1990s.1 Although guidewires and operator skills have not changed appreciably in the past 15 years, stent and balloon technology are much more advanced, and one might hope that the improvements in equipment would have improved the results of this theoretically attractive treatment. In this issue of Heart Santoro and colleagues report their recent experience of a case series of ductal
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