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The initial management of severely cyanosed patients with tetralogy of Fallot-type lesions remains challenging. True neonatal repair of these lesions remains the exception (1–3). The creation of a Blalock-Taussig (BT) shunt is well established but continues to have a high early and late complication rate and mortality (4). Earlier attempts at transcatheter interventions (either balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty or stenting the right ventricular outflow tract) were rather high risk or yielded unpredictable results (5–8). It is only recently that several groups have revisited stenting of the right ventricular outflow tract (9–12) in the initial palliation of symptomatic patients with Fallot-type lesions.
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Stumper, O., Quandt, D., Penford, G. (2019). Stenting of the Right Ventricular Outflow Tract as Initial Palliation for Fallot-Type Lesions. In: Butera, G., Chessa, M., Eicken, A., Thomson, J.D. (eds) Atlas of Cardiac Catheterization for Congenital Heart Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72443-0_37
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