title: The relief of pulmonary stenosis by a transatrial versus a transventricular approach to the repair of tetralogy of Fallot.
abstract: The ratio of peak pressure in the right ventricle to that in the left ventricle (PRV/LV) in the operating room thirty minutes after repair of tetralogy of Fallot by an atrial approach, with or without a concomitant transatrial approach, was 0.58 +/- 0.217. It was 0.52 +/- 0.158 when repair was through a right ventricular approach (p for difference = 0.16). This ratio 18 to 24 hours postoperatively was 0.49 +/- 0.148 and 0.45 +/- 0.121 for the right atrial and right ventricular approaches, respectively. The reduction in PRV/LV between the two observations was -0.09 +/- 0.147 for the right atrial and -0.07 +/- 0.110 for the right ventricular approach (p for difference = 0.4). Therefore, the predictive rules for placing a transannular patch, rules derived from patients in whom the right ventricular approach was used and depending in part on the fall in PRV/LV during the first 24 hours after operation, are also applicable to patients in whom an atrial approach, with or without a transpulmonary approach, is used.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Alabama, School of Medicine, Birmingham 35294.
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Coles
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Kirklin
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Pacifico
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Kirklin
authors.forename: E H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Blackstone
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000601:surgery; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D011666:Pulmonary Valve Stenosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013771:Tetralogy of Fallot / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*