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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 93, 919-924, Copyright © 1987 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Transatrial-transpulmonary repair of tetralogy of Fallot

AD Pacifico, ME Sand, LM Bargeron Jr and EC Colvin

Classical tetralogy of Fallot was repaired by a transatrial- transpulmonary approach in 61 of 70 patients treated surgically on one surgical service between July 1981 and December 1985. Their ages ranged from 2.5 months to 57 years (mean 52.9 +/- 104.2 months). The ventricular septal defect was closed through the right atrium and tricuspid valve in 60 patients and via the pulmonary artery in one patient with a subpulmonary defect. A pulmonary arteriotomy was made in 38 patients to expose the stenotic pulmonary valve for valvotomy and to begin the infundibular mobilization and resection. It was extended through a small pulmonary anulus primarily in 15 patients and secondarily in one, a minimal distance upon the right ventricular infundibulum to enlarge the outflow tract to 2 standard deviations larger than the mean normal pulmonary valve anulus diameter. There were no hospital or late deaths or reoperations among the entire group. The mean postrepair peak right ventricular/left ventricular pressure measured in the operating room was 0.52 +/- 0.165 for the entire group of 61 patients which indicates similar relief of pulmonary stenosis to that obtained by the classical transventricular repair. At follow-up between 2.3 and 53.8 months (mean 22.6) each patient was in New York Heart Association Class I and without cardiac medication. Postoperative cardiac catheterization studies performed in nine patients between 4 and 28 months after operation showed no residual ventricular septal defects and a mean peak right/left ventricular pressure of 0.42 +/- 0.13. This series indicates that successful repair of tetralogy of Fallot can be accomplished in most patients by a transatrial- transpulmonary approach, which may provide improved right ventricular function over the long term.

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