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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996;112:415-423
© 1996 Mosby, Inc.

SURGERY FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

UNUSUAL FORMS OF TRACHEOBRONCHIAL COMPRESSION IN INFANTS WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

From Marie Lannelongue Hospital, Paris, France.

Received for publication August 31, 1995 Revisions requested Oct. 27, 1995; revisions received Dec. 11, 1995 Accepted for publication Jan. 18, 1996. Address for reprints: Claude Planché, MD, Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Marie Lannelongue Hospital, 133, Avenue de la Résistance, 92350 Le Plessis-Robinson, France.

Abstract

Three groups of unusual forms of tracheobronchial compression caused by vascular anomalies are presented. Three patients had an encircling right aortic arch with a left-sided descending aorta and ligamentum arteriosum (group 1), two patients had airway compression caused by a pincer effect between a malposed and enlarged ascending aorta and the descending aorta (group 2), and three patients had airway compression after an arterial switch operation for transposition of the great arteries (group 3). Symptoms developed in all patients before the age of 4 months, and six of them had multiple failed attempts at extubation before the surgical intervention directed at relieving the airway compression. Fiberoptic endoscopy was used in all patients as a first-line diagnostic tool and was 100% accurate in establishing the diagnosis. The operations performed were aortic uncrossing in group 1, dissection and aortopexy of the right or left main bronchus in group 2, and dissection of the left main bronchus and lysis of adhesions in group 3. In group 1 there was one early death, resulting from aspiration, and one late death 4 years later, resulting from an unrelated cause. In this group, bronchomalacia was noted after the operation and resolved gradually in the year after the intervention. In group 2, one patient died of an aortobronchial fistula after placement of a bronchial stent. Group 3 patients had good postoperative results. Two of them are completely symptom-free and one has residual bronchomalacia and may need placement of a bronchial stent. (J THORACCARDIOVASCSURG1996;112:415-23)

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