Rehabilitation of pulmonary arteries: Hybrid treatment in the unilateral absence of the pulmonary artery.

BACKGROUND: Unilateral abscence of pulmonary artery is a rare congenital heart disease. If these anomaly is unrecognized and treated the risk of pulmonary hypertension in the contralateral lung can be lethal for the patients. AIMS: To report the successful sequential hybrid-surgical approach of two cases of rescue of pulmonary branches only fed by ductus arteriosus. MATERIALS & METHODS: Description of two rare cases of absence of a unilateral pulmonary branch successfully treated in our institution. RESULTS, DISCUSSSIION AND CONCLUSION: The timely identification of these cases and the strategic planning of interventional and surgical hybrid sequential treatment of these rare cases is effective.