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Long-Term Survival After Arterial Versus Atrial Switch in d-Transposition of the Great Arteries

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Submitted by

Claire Vernon

Source

Source Name: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2018.06.084

Author(s)

Alexander Kiener, Michael Kelleman, Courtney McCracken, Lazaros Kochilas, James D. St. Louis, Matthew E. Oster

Kiener and colleagues evaluated survival for patients receiving either an arterial or atrial switch operation for d-transposition of the great arteries. The authors evaluated operation data from the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium between 1982 and 1991, finding better 20-year overall transplant-free survival for arterial switch operations than for atrial switch (82.1% versus 76.3%) despite the fact that in-hospital mortality was higher for arterial switch (21.6% versus 12.9%).