Treatment of Complete Transposition of the Great Vessels with the Blalock-Hanlon Operation

Treatment of complete transposition of the great vessels with the Blalock-Hanlon operation.

TRANSPOSITION of the great vessels is not a rare anomaly. It accounts for 8 per cent and is the fourth most common of all congenital heart diseases, being surpassed in frequency only by patent ductus arteriosus, ventricular septal defect, and tetralogy of Fallot.' Furthermore, transposition is a notorious first cause of death from congenital heart disease in childhood. At the Texas Children 's ...

[Complete transposition of the great vessels].

[complete Transposition of the Great Vessels with Atrial Septal Defect].

The Coronary Circulation in Complete Transposition of the Great Vessels.

While the anatomy of the coronary arteries in complete transposition of the great vessels has been studied by several authors, the overall problem of adequacy of the coronary blood supply in this condition has received less attention. Spitzer (1923) described the probable embryological basis for partial or complete transposition of the coronary arteries. Astley and Parsons (1952) thought that m...

Acid-base balance in complete transposition of the great vessels.

In complete transposition of the great vessels the pulmonary and systemic circulations exist as two separate circuits. Although the pulmonary and the systemic blood flows may vary widely, the effective pulmonary blood flow is often small (Shaher, 1964). While the acid-base balance in the systemic circuit has been studied by several workers (Sunico, Harned, and Ordway, 1960; Gootman, Scarpelli, ...