Transposition of the great vessels corrective surgery

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L-transposition of the great arteries
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-In-Chief: Priyamvada Singh, M.B.B.S. [2]; Cafer Zorkun, M.D., Ph.D. [3]; Keri Shafer, M.D. [4]; Assistant Editor(s)-In-Chief: Kristin Feeney, B.S. [5]

Overview

Recent advances in surgical correction of transposition of the great arteries have reduced the mortality drastically from 95% in uncorrected patients to 5% in corrected patients.

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Surgery

General features

Arterial switch or Jatene Operation

Immediate post-operative (Jatene procedure) d-TGA + VSD neonate.

Atrial switch repair

Below are the images depicting different arterial switch procedures for TGA

Rastelli operation

Below is an image depicting the procedure of Rasteli operation for TGA:

Acknowledgements and Initial Contributors to Page

Leida Perez, M.D.

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