title: Echocardiographic comparison of postoperative left ventricular contractile state between one- and two-stage arterial switch operation for simple transposition of the great arteries.
abstract: Left ventricular contractile function was compared between primary and two-stage arterial switch operation (ASO) in neonates and infants with simple transposition of the great arteries (TGA). Eight patients (group 1) underwent primary ASO at 13-42 (23 +/- 10 [mean +/- SD]) days of age, and five patients (group 2) underwent two-stage ASO after pulmonary artery banding and Blalock-Taussig shunting at 11-26 (15 +/- 3) months of age. Postoperative echocardiographic studies were undertaken at 6-48 (22 +/- 16) months of age in group 1 and 25-45 (32 +/- 7) months of age in group 2. The results were compared with those obtained from nine age-matched normal children (group N). To compare left ventricular contractile state among the patients, the deviations from the mean normal values in relations of end-systolic wall stress to fractional shortening and to rate-adjusted mean velocity of circumferential shortening (the stress-shortening index and stress-velocity index, respectively) were obtained for each patient. The stress-shortening index was significantly lower in group 2 (-3.1 +/- 3.1) than in group 1 (1.3 +/- 1.7, p less than 0.05); the stress-velocity index was significantly lower in group 2 (-3.3 +/- 1.8) than in group 1 (1.5 +/- 1.6, p less than 0.01) or in group N (-0.4 +/- 0.5, p less than 0.05). These results suggest that postoperative left ventricular contractility can be well preserved in patients after primary ASO for simple TGA in neonates, but there is a possibility of depressed contractility in patients after two-stage ASO.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, Osaka University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakano
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shimazaki
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kadoba
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Taniguchi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sano
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakada
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tsuchitani
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miyamoto
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matsuda
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009200:Myocardial Contraction / Q000502:physiology*; D010166:Palliative Care; D011184:Postoperative Period; D014188:Transposition of Great Vessels / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology*