title: Successful stenting of systemic venous pathway stenosis after double switch repair for congenitally corrected transposition of great arteries in a child.
abstract: An 8-year-old boy with previous shunt operation for corrected transposition of great arteries, ventricular septal defect, pulmonary stenosis and multiple aortopulmonary collateral arteries underwent corrective surgery. In the early post-operative period, there were clinical findings of superior vena cava obstruction. Cardiac catheterization at 72 h following surgery showed a systemic venous baffle stenosis between the vena cava and right atrium. A stent was successfully implanted in the vena cava percutaneously, and the stenosis was relieved. Her symptoms resolved in a short time period, and she was extubated rapidly. During the follow-up, excellent maintenance and patency of systemic venous baffle were observed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Acıbadem University Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey. ardasaygili@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Arda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Saygılı
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, Acıbadem Bakirköy Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Yusuf
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yalçınbaş
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, Acıbadem Bakirköy Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arnaz
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, Acıbadem University Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Tayyar
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sarıoğlu
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D015607:Stents; D013479:Superior Vena Cava Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D014188:Transposition of Great Vessels / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*