Cardiology in the young
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Cardiology in the young · Dec 2019
Review Case ReportsArterial switch procedure and hybrid muscular ventricular septal defect closure in a patient with d-transposition of the great arteries and multiple ventricular septal defects: a case report and literature review.
Hybrid cardiac surgery involves simultaneous catheter based and surgical treatment of heart diseases. We report a complete repair of dextro-transposition of the great arteries and perimembranous and muscular ventricular septal defects in a 5-month-old girl. This included an arterial switch operation followed by an off-bypass, echocardiographically guided per-ventricular muscular ventricular septal defect closure.
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Cardiology in the young · Dec 2019
Multicenter StudyFactors affecting the outcome of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation following paediatric cardiac surgery.
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation has been widely used after paediatric cardiac surgery due to increasing complex surgical repairs in neonates and infants having complex CHDs. ⋯ Survival to hospital discharge in patients requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support after paediatric cardiac surgery was better in those who underwent biventricular repair than in those who had univentricular palliation. Capillary leak on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation could be a risk of mortality in patients after paediatric cardiac surgery.