The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 75, 815-818, Copyright © 1978 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association
Corrected transposition. Another approach for repair of associated intracardiac malformations
LL Bailey, LL Laughlin, ML McDonald and EL Petry
A variety of surgical approaches have been used for repair of cardiac
lesions associated with corrected transposition of the great vessels. These
techniques have met with variable success and generally high surgical
mortality rates. In an effort to simplify the surgical approach to repair
of ventricular septal defect and replacement of left atrioventricular valve
in a 4-year-old youngster, we chose to correct the defects through a left
posterolateral thoracotomy and through the left atrium utilizing profound
hypothermia and circulatory arrest. Ease of intracardiac assessment and
repair and postoperative results to date have been most gratifying.