From April 1984 to January 1986, anatomic surgical correction was performed in 50 newborn (2to 23-day-old, mean 8 + 5 [SD]) infants with simple transposition of the great arteries. Before surgery, balloon atrial septostomy was performed in all patients, prostaglandin E1 was infused in 42, and left ventricular shape on a two-dimensional echocardiogram was considered "satisfactory" in 48. Surgery...

Percutaneous pulmonary balloon valvuloplasty (PBV) remains the treatment of choice for pulmonary stenosis (PS). This procedure is effective, safe and gives excellent results. Pulmonary artery (PA) dissection is a rare complication of PBV. This report is a case of an asymptomatic 17-year-old male with a history of PBV due to severe PS dating back to fifteen years ago. During recent echocardiogra...

Introduction: Since 1954, after the first surgical repair of tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), several innovations have occurred in cardiac surgery, especially in children. One stage complete repair of TOF is currently possible even in infancy; however, complications such as hypoxemia, arrhythmia, cardiac dysfunction, sudden death, and valvular disorders may happen. In this study, we evaluated the res...

the aim of this study is to evaluate early and late results of surgery in children with congenital heart disease and decreased pulmonary blood flow, who underwent a palliative systemic-to-pulmonary shunt. during the past 9 years, 157 systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunts were performed in 130 patients (69 males, 61 females) with ages from 1 day to 31 years old. they had been evaluated for their c...

It has been suggested that the maximal amplitude of the pulmonary valve motion following atrial contraction (Amax) may be useful in the clinical evaluation of patients with valvular pulmonary stenosis. To evaluate the specificity and sensitivity of this measurement in children, we reviewed the echocardiograms of the pulmonary valve of 120 subjects: 57 normal individuals, 25 patients with secund...

percutaneous pulmonary balloon valvuloplasty (pbv) remains the treatment of choice for pulmonary stenosis (ps). this procedure is effective, safe and gives excellent results. pulmonary artery (pa) dissection is a rare complication of pbv. this report is a case of an asymptomatic 17-year-old male with a history of pbv due to severe ps dating back to fifteen years ago. during recent echocardiogra...