Changing Outcomes of Pulmonary Artery Banding With the Percutaneously Adjustable Pulmonary Artery Band

Similar band gradients were achieved with the use of conventional or adjustable PAB. However, the use of this simple and inexpensive technique of APAB was associated with a significant reduction in the early band-related deaths, need for early multiple reoperations, and early adverse acute events, thus making it a safer alternative to CPAB, more so in unstable patients.