Blalock-Taussig (BT) shunt One option is the BT shunt, the most common procedure for infants with ductal-dependent circulation, where blood is detoured to get to the pulmonary artery.

The surgical Blalock-Taussig (BT) shunt has historically been the more common procedure for infants with ductal-dependent pulmonary blood flow, while the transcatheter patent ductus arteriosis ...

The surgical Blalock-Taussig (BT) shunt has historically been the more common procedure for infants with ductal-dependent pulmonary blood flow, while the transcatheter patent ductus arteriosus ...

But the BT shunt would never have seen the inside of an operating room as early as it did if not for Vivien Theodore Thomas. Over the course of a career recounted in the 2004 television movie ...

Odyssey, an Australian shepherd, was treated for Tetralogy of Fallot via a Blalock-Taussig shunt procedure.

“So, the first thing that they did was they put a BT shunt in to keep the blood flowing, because essentially the blood comes into the right side of your heart and then moves to the left, but ...

The publication in the open-access Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (JTCVS Open), entitled “ Evaluation of tissue-engineered human acellular vessels as a Blalock–Taussig–Thomas ...

Surgery is required to repair the defect in most individuals. The Blalock-Taussig shunt (subclavian artery surgically attached to pulmonary artery) was initially used in 1945.

Specifically, this landmark study evaluated whether the traditional modified Blalock-Taussig shunt (MBTS) was superior to the recently introduced right ventricle to pulmonary arterial shunt (RVPAS).