Pediatr Cardiol
DOI
10.1007/s00246-008-9300-6
Received: 7 July 2008 /
Accepted: 20 July 2008
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Science+Business Media, LLC 2008
The Arterial Switch Operation Before Jatene
Author
William N Evans, MD
Source
ChildrenŐs Heart Center Nevada, 3006 S Maryland Pkwy Ste 690, Las
Vegas, NV 89109, USA.
E-mail: WNevans50@aol.com.
Abstract
Attempts at the arterial switch operation predated the Senning
and the Mustard venous switch procedures. No patients survived the earlier
arterial switch methods. Therefore, from the 1960s to the 1980s, venous switch
surgeries became the dominant treatment method
for transposition of the
great arteries. The Brazilian cardiac surgeon, Adib Jatene, reported the first
successful arterial switch in 1975. The history of the earlier arterial
switches performed in the 1950s and 1960s is not well known. This article
discusses that early history.