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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 90, 597-604, Copyright © 1985 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Assessment of coronary and aortic anastomoses after anatomic correction of transposition of the great arteries

FW Arensman, HH Sievers, P Lange, R Radley-Smith, A Bernhard, P Heintzen and MH Yacoub

Anatomic correction of transposition of the great arteries always entails circumferential anastomoses of the aorta and coronary arteries. Long-term success of this procedure is predicted on adequate growth of these anastomotic sites. To assess the size of these arteries, we performed one or two cardiac catheterization on 25 children from 1 to 53 months (mean 18.8 months) following anatomic correction. Early studies (mean 12 months) were performed in 23 patients and late studies (mean 30 months) in 13 patients. Age at repair ranged from 2 to 168 months (mean 25.5 months) and 15 patients were less than a year of age. Fifteen patients had undergone previous pulmonary artery banding in preparation for anatomic repair. Postoperative catheterizations showed no area of narrowing at the aortic or coronary anastomoses and no kinking of the proximal coronary arteries. Almost all normalized diameters of the aortic root were larger than normal. There were no differences between early and late measurements after anatomic correction. No patient had a pressure gradient across the aortic anastomosis. It is, therefore, concluded that the coronary and aortic anastomoses allow for satisfactory growth even when there has been previous pulmonary artery banding.

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