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

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%).