title: [Early correction of the interrupted aortic arch].
abstract: Between 1974 and March 1983, 14 infants with interruption of the aortic arch (IAA), ventricular septal defect (VSD), and patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) have been operated at our institution. In the beginning of our experience only palliative operations were performed, consisting in reconstruction of the aortic arch, closure of PDA and pulmonary artery banding (PBA). According to this procedure five patients were operated. Three of them died, the two survivors underwent successful closure of the VSD subsequently. Since 1979 the primary total correction, with repair of the extra- and intracardial anomalies in deep hypothermia and circulatory arrest, is the operation of choice. A total of nine patients underwent primary correction, in this latter group we observed two deaths only.
mesh_terms: D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000002:abnormalities*; D001027:Aortography; D004374:Ductus Arteriosus, Patent / Q000601:surgery; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011379:Prognosis
vernacular_title: Zur Frühkorrektur des unterbrochenen Aortenbogens (IAA).