Table 1.
Summary of the surgery for isolated pulmonary TA
| Pt | Age (Y), gender |
Location | Procedure | Material applied | Follow-up months |
Postoperative imaging |
Restenosis | Immuno- suppression |
Author (’Y) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 60 F | Bifurcation | Patch | Pericardium | 6 | AG | Yes | Yes* | Chauvaud (’87) |
| 2 | 53 M | Bifurcation | Patch | Pericardium | 6 | AG | Yes | - | Dietl (’88) |
| 3 | 57 M | Rt | Patch | - | - | - | - | - | Okubo (’88) |
| 4 | 31 M | Bifurcation | Patch | Dacron | 18 | AG | Yes | - | Jakob (’90) |
| 5 | 34 F | Rt | Grafting | NA | 13 | - | - | - | Lie (’96) |
| 6 | 25 F | Rt | Grafting | NA | 25 | - | - | - | Lie (’96) |
| 7 | 76 F | Rt & Lt | Bypass | PTFE | - | - | - | - | Sundt (’01) |
| 8 | 63 F | Rt & Lt | Grafting | Dacron | 66 | - | - | - | Shikata (’04) |
| 9 | 67 F | Rt | Patch | Pericardium | 3 | AG | Yes | - | Yamazaki (’05) |
| 10 | 45 F | Lt | Bypass | PTFE | 60 | AG | No | - | Nakajima (’07) |
| 11 | 48 M | Rt | Grafting | Dacron | 6 | CT | No | No | Fujita (’13) |
| 12 | 59 M | Rt & Lt | Grafting | PTFE | 1.5 | AG & CT | No | Yes† | Hamamoto (’11) |
| 13 | 51 F | Rt & Lt | Grafting | PTFE | 30 | AG & CT | No | - | Furtado (’12) |
Pt: patient number, Y: year, M: male, F: female, Bifurcation: bifurcation of the main pulmonary artery trunk, Rt: right main pulmonary artery, Lt: left main pulmonary artery, Patch: patch angioplasty, Grafting: graft replacement, Bypass: bypass surgery, PTFE: polytetrafluoroethylene, AG: angiography, CT: computed tomography, *: glucocorticoid at unknown dosage, †: oral prednisolone at 20 mg/day, −: not available