Thrombosis in modified Blalock‐Taussig‐Thomas shunts (mBTTS) poses a life‐threatening risk for infants with shunt ... The example features a 3.5 mm mBTTS implanted in a neonate with hypoplastic left ...

A 13-year-old girl with SID, CCTGA, ventricular septal defect (VSD), subvalvular pulmonary stenosis (PS), atrial septal defect (ASD), right anterior aorta, and atypical ductus arteriosus had undergone ...

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Recent advancements in robot-assisted transcranial Doppler (raTCD) have shown increased sensitivity in detecting right-to-left shunt (RLS) compared to transthoracic echocardiography (TTE), ...

Though his name is often left out, Thomas helped create the “Blalock-Taussig Shunt,” which is sometimes referred to as the “ Blalock-Thomas-Taussig Shunt.” The surgical procedure became a ...

In the early days of open heart surgery, a staged repair with palliative aortopulmonary shunts (i.e., Blalock–Taussig shunts and ... right heart dilatation and left ventricular characteristics).

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed records of 55 patients diagnosed with idiopathic NPH (INPH) and treated with CSF shunts, all of whom were followed for more than 3 years after the original shunt ...