Arterial switch operation with Dacron patch closure of multiple VSDs under integrated ECMO was successfully performed in a 5-week-old infant with d-TGA, yielding good 12-month outcomes.
A 5-week-old male child, weighing 4 kg diagnosed with d-transposition of the great arteries with multiple muscular ventricular septal defects, Yacoub’s type-A coronary arterial pattern, successfully underwent arterial switch operation with Dacron patch closure of ventricular septal defects under moderately hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass and St. Thomas based cold blood cardioplegia under integrated extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Postoperatively, he required mechanical circulatory assistance for 72 h. At 12 months of follow-up, there was no mitral or tricuspid regurgitation, no neoaortic valve insufficiency with good biventricular function in Ross clinical score of 2.
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