Two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiographic follow-up after the arterial switch operation for transposition of the great arteries
| Autor: | Maria Wimmer, Proll E, Marx M, Ulrike Salzer-Muhar, Salzer Hr |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
| Předmět: |
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Male medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Transposition of Great Vessels Hemodynamics Regurgitation (circulation) Anastomosis Doppler echocardiography Postoperative Complications Internal medicine medicine Humans Mitral regurgitation medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Infant Newborn medicine.disease Echocardiography Doppler Stenosis Great arteries Echocardiography Child Preschool Cardiology Surgery Female Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Supravalvular aortic stenosis Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | The Thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon. 39 |
| ISSN: | 0171-6425 |
| Popis: | An echocardiographic follow-up examination was performed in 20 children who underwent an arterial switch operation from November 1984 to October 1990. The age at the time of operation ranged from 1 to 54 days, the weight ranged from 2.5 to 4.5 kg body weight. The time interval from the day of operation and the examination ranged from 3 to 74 months. M-mode echocardiography showed hypokinetic left ventricular function in 6 patients (30%). Abnormal segmental left ventricular wall motions were found in 6/16 patients (37.5%). Doppler echocardiographic examination at the site of the pulmonary anastomosis revealed an instantaneous gradient less than 20 mmHg in 9 patients (45%), a gradient between 20 and 60 mmHg in 9 patients (45) and a gradient greater than 60 mmHg in two patients (10%). The location of the stenosis was just below the bifurcation in 17 patients (85%) and seemed to be related to stretching of the pulmonary trunk during the Lecompte maneuver. One patient (5%) had a supravalvular aortic stenosis with a gradient of 43 mmHg. Color-flow mapping revealed mild aortic regurgitation in 8 patients (40%) but moderate regurgitation in one patient (5%). Three patients (15%) showed mild mitral regurgitation, all of them also had hypokinetic left ventricular function. |
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