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Outcomes after Arterial Switch Operation for Simple Transposition

Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
¹ Department of Pediatric Cardiology Alder Hey Hospital Liverpool, United Kingdom

For reprint information contact: Shahzad G Raja, MRCS Tel: 44 141 201 0269 Fax: 44 141 201 9204 Email: drrajashahzad{at}hotmail.com, Department of Paediatric Cardiac Surgery, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill NHS Trust, Dalnair Street, Glasgow, G3 8SJ, United Kingdom.

Without intervention, babies born with transposed great arteries (TGA) are doomed to a rapid death. Jatene and coworkers deserve the credit for performing the first successful arterial switch operation (ASO) in a patient with TGA and ventricular septal defect (VSD) in 1975. Since then ASO has become the procedure of choice in most medical centers. This review article summarizes the historical aspects of arterial switch operation and assesses this procedure’s outcomes.

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