Blalock-Hanlon procedure

Blalock-Hanlon procedure
Intervention
ICD-9-CM 35.42

The Blalock-Hanlon procedure is a form of heart surgery.

It involves the intentional creation of a septal defect in order to alter the flow of oxygenated blood.

It was developed by Alfred Blalock and C. Rollins Hanlon.

It was described in 1950.[1]

References

  1. ^ Catherine A. Neill; Edward B. Clark (28 February 1995). The developing heart: a 'history' of pediatric cardiology. Springer. pp. 61–. ISBN 9780792333753. http://books.google.com/books?id=8zJZLXDQM6UC&pg=PA61. Retrieved 21 June 2011. 
Healthcare science – Medicine · Surgery · Cardiac procedures (ICD-9-CM V3 35-37+89.4+99.6, ICD-10-PCS 02)
Surgery and IC
Heart valves
and septa

Valve repair · Valvulotomy · Mitral valve repair · Valvuloplasty (aortic, mitral) Valve replacement - Aortic valve replacement (Ross procedure, Percutaneous aortic valve replacement) · Mitral valve replacement

production of septal defect in heart: enlargement of existing septal defect (Atrial septostomy, Balloon septostomy) · creation of septal defect in heart (Blalock-Hanlon procedure)

shunt from heart chamber to blood vessel: atrium to pulmonary artery (Fontan procedure) · left ventricle to aorta (Rastelli procedure) · right ventricle to pulmonary artery (Sano shunt)

compound procedures: for transposition of great vessels (Jatene procedure, Mustard procedure) · for univentricular defect (Norwood procedure, Kawashima procedure)

shunt from blood vessel to blood vessel: systemic circulation to pulmonary artery shunt (Blalock-Taussig shunt) · SVC to the right PA (Glenn procedure)
Cardiac vessels
Other
Diagnostic
tests and
procedures
Function tests
Pacing

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