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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:633-639
© 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease

The arterial switch operation in Europe for transposition of the great arteries: A multi-institutional study from the European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association

^a Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece
^b Children's Heart Center, Queen Silvia's Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Goteborg, Sweden
^c the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
^d Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
^e Pediatric Heart Institute, Hospital Universitario "12 de Octubre," Madrid, Spain
^f Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesu, Rome, Italy
^g Cardiac Surgery, Gasthuisberg University Hospital, Leuven, Belgium
^h Thorax Centre, Groningen University Medical Centre, the Netherlands
ⁱ Hospital de Santa Marta, Lisbon, Portugal
^j Department of Cardiac Surgery, Children's University Hospital, Bratislava, Slovakia
^k Bakulev Center for Cardiovascular Surgery, Moscow, Russia
^l Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
^m Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hôpital de la Timone, Marseille, France
ⁿ Alder Hey Cardiac Unit, Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
^o Service de Chirurgie Cardivasculaire et Thoracique Université Catholique de Louvain, Clinique Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium
^p Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
^q University of Padova, Padova, Italy
^r Deutsches Kinderherzzentrum, St Augustin, Germany
^s The General Infirmary, Leeds, United Kingdom
^t Klinik für Thorax, Herz- und Gefässchirurgie, Eberhard Karls Universitat, Tubingen, Germany

Read at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Western Thoracic Surgical Association, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, June 22-25, 2005.

Received for publication August 27, 2005; revisions received December 11, 2005; accepted for publication January 19, 2006.

^_* Address for reprints: George E. Sarris, MD, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, 356 Sygrou Ave, Kallithea, Athens, Greece 176 74 (Email: gsarris{at}hol.gr).

OBJECTIVES: This study analyzes the results of the arterial switch operation for transposition of the great arteries in member institutions of the European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association.

METHODS: The records of 613 patients who underwent primary arterial switch operations in each of 19 participating institutions in the period from January 1998 through December 2000 were reviewed retrospectively.

RESULTS: A ventricular septal defect was present in 186 (30%) patients. Coronary anatomy was type A in 69% of the patients, and aortic arch pathology was present in 20% of patients with ventricular septal defect. Rashkind septostomy was performed in 75% of the patients, and 69% received prostaglandin. There were 37 hospital deaths (operative mortality, 6%), 13 (3%) for patients with an intact ventricular septum and 24 (13%) for those with a ventricular septal defect (P < .001). In 36% delayed sternal closure was performed, 8% required peritoneal dialysis, and 2% required mechanical circulatory support. Median ventilation time was 58 hours, and intensive care and hospital stay were 6 and 14 days, respectively. Although of various preoperative risk factors the presence of a ventricular septal defect, arch pathology, and coronary anomalies were univariate predictors of operative mortality, only the presence of a ventricular septal defect approached statistical significance (P = .06) on multivariable analysis. Of various operative parameters, aortic crossclamp time and delayed sternal closure were also univariate predictors; however, only the latter was an independent statistically significant predictor of death.

CONCLUSIONS: Results of the procedure in European centers are compatible with those in the literature. The presence of a ventricular septal defect is the clinically most important preoperative risk factor for operative death, approaching statistical significance on multivariable analysis.

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