Population
139 consecutive pediatric patients with transposition of the great arteries or double outlet right ventricle…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
median 72.5 months
Authors
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Supports excellent long-term survival after arterial switch in small-volume centers; leaves open targeted reoperation risk mitigation for Taussig-Bing anomaly.
The arterial switch operation can be performed with low early mortality (2.2%) and excellent 15-year survival (97.6%) even in a small volume center, though Taussig-Bing anomaly significantly increases the risk of reoperation.
Shim et al. (2016) studied this question.
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