title: Off-pump revascularization in a 2-year-old girl after neonatal arterial switch.
abstract: One drawback of the arterial switch operation for treating transposition of the great arteries is the occurrence of coronary lesions, found during follow-up in about 5% of (a)symptomatic children. The established corrective procedures include coronary artery proximal patch arterioplasty or coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). To avoid aortic manipulations and extracorporeal circulation, off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) has become increasingly used in the adult population. We report a case of OPCAB revascularization in a symptomatic 2-year-old child.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: alain.poncelet@uclouvain.be.
authors.forename: Alain Jean
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Poncelet
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Stéphane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Moniotte
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Mona
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Momeni
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Intensive Care, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Thierry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Detaille
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Jean Etienne
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Rubay
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D047549:Coronary Artery Bypass, Off-Pump / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000601:surgery*; D014188:Transposition of Great Vessels / Q000601:surgery*