Two Thousand Blalock-Taussig Shunts: A Six-Decade Experience Jason A. Williams, MD, Anshuman K. Bansal, BS, Bradford J. Kim, BA, Lois U. Nwakanma, MD, Nishant D. Patel, BA, Akhil K. Seth, BS, Diane E. Alejo, BA, Vincent L. Gott, MD, Luca A. Vricella, MD, William A. Baumgartner, MD, Duke E. Cameron, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 84, Issue 6, Pages 2070-2075 (December 2007) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.06.067 Copyright © 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Type of Blalock-Taussig shunt (BTS) procedures performed. (L = left; R = right.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2007 84, 2070-2075DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.06.067) Copyright © 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Operative mortality by decade. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2007 84, 2070-2075DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.06.067) Copyright © 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Kaplan–Meier cumulative survival. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2007 84, 2070-2075DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.06.067) Copyright © 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 4 Causes of early and late death after Blalock-Taussig shunt for 710 patients known to have experienced early or late death after undergoing the procedure. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2007 84, 2070-2075DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.06.067) Copyright © 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 5 Number of Blalock-Taussig shunt (BTS; gray bars) procedures, percentage of operative mortality (dashed line), and percentage of single-ventricle patients (solid line) by decade. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2007 84, 2070-2075DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.06.067) Copyright © 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions