Pulmonary artery banding for dilated cardiomyopathy in children
XU Qi-teng
CHEN Rui
XING Quan-sheng
Abstract：Dilated cardiomyopathy is a primary cause of cardiogenic death in children.Medical therapy alone proves insufficient,necessitating heart transplantation as the preferred life-saving definitive treatment.Nevertheless,transplantation does not achieve a definitive cure.Pulmonary artery banding(PAB)significantly improves cardiac function in certain pediatric patients,thereby mitigating the need for heart transplantation and showing clinical potential to cure dilated cardiomyopathy.PAB is expected to be a preferred option for the long-term or definitive treatment of pediatric dilated cardiomyopathy.
Keywords：dilated cardiomyopathysurgical treatmentpulm-onary artery banding
Publication Date：2025-03-06
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 239-243 )