Surgical Correction of Transposition of the Aorta and the Pulmonary Artery

Baffes, Thomas G.; Riker, William L.; Boer, Arthur De; Potts, Willis J.

doi:10.1016/s0096-5588(20)30323-8

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“…It was a partial physiological correction consisting of an anastomosis between the right pulmonary veins to the right atrium and inferior vena cava (IVC) to the left atrium. 3 This was modified using an allograft to connect IVC to the left atrium by Baffles 4 in 1956. Thereafter, Ake Senning successfully performed the complete physiological repair or the atrial switch operation 5,6 in 1959.…”

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Atrial Switch Operation in the Current Era

Talwar

Nair

Choudhary

et al. 2012

World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg

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Although rarely performed today, atrial switch operations continue to have an important role in the management of some forms of congenital heart disease. In developing countries, delayed diagnosis and presentation of patients with transposition of the great arteries is not uncommon. For some patients who are referred for surgery beyond the newborn period, the atrial switch operations are still considered to be the best option. Also, as part of surgical repair of congenitally corrected transposition, an atrial switch operation is combined with arterial switch or the Rastelli procedure as an alternative to physiologic repair. In isolated ventricular inversion (atrioventricular discordance with ventriculoarterial concordance), the atrial switch operation alone leads to complete anatomical correction. Finally, management of late complications of atrial switch operations requires a thorough understanding of the procedures.

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Atrial Switch Operation in the Current Era

Talwar

Nair

Choudhary

et al. 2012

World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg

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“…Surgical atrial septectomy was subsequently replaced by balloon atrioseptostomy, as described by Rashkind and Miller in 1966 (6). Meanwhile, in Chicago in the 1950s, Baffes pioneered a surgical procedure with an aortic homograft to direct flow from the inferior vena cava to the left atrium, while anastomosing the right pulmonary veins to the right atrium (7). The first successful atrial switch procedure was performed in Sweden by Senning in 1957 using atrial flaps (8).…”

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Dextro-transposition of the great arteries: switching the switch

Chaix

Khairy

2019

Transl Pediatr

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“…Dr Baffes’ sentinel contribution was a new operation for the surgical palliation of transposition of the great arteries (Fig 1). This operation was originally published in Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics in 1956 1 . The Baffes operation was described at a time when there was no effective palliation for children with transposition of the great arteries.…”

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“…The right pulmonary veins have been anastomosed to the right atrium. This effectively was a 50% correction of transposition of the great arteries 1 . IVC = inferior vena cava. …”

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