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A new palliative surgical procedure for interruption of the aortic arch was successfully performed in an infant. A Teflon graft was inserted from the main pulmonary artery to the descending thoracic aorta in order to bypass a stenotic ductus arteriosus, and both pulmonary artery branches were banded to reduce the pulmonary blood flow.This procedure may also prove life-saving in the hypoplastic left...