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Ann Thorac Surg 1977;24:537-543
© 1977 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's Hospital, Buffalo, NY.
* Address reprint requests to Dr. Subramanian, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's Hospital, Buffalo, NY 14222
Multiple muscular ventricular septal defects were closed through an apical left ventriculotomy in 11 patients. The patients were divided into two groups: Group 1, 8 patients who had transposition of the great arteries, and group 2, 3 patients without transposition. There were 4 deaths in Group 1 and none in Group 2. Two of the deaths were caused by a hypoplastic right ventricle, 1 by airway obstruction, and 1 by heart failure and pulmonary edema in a patient who had additional unrecognized muscular defects.
An apical left ventriculotomy provides excellent exposure of the septum. The field is not obscured by trabecular bands or papillary muscles. Although 1 patient died because of residual VSDs, this approach, compared with previously described methods, minimizes the risk of unrecognized defects.
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