Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection: surgical treatment in 35 infants.

From 1973 through December 1980, 41 children with total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) were seen in our hospital, and 35 underwent surgery. The supracardiac type of TAPVC was found in 19 cases (46%), the intracardiac type in 6 infants (15%), the infracardiac type in 15 cases (37%), and the mixed type in one child (2%). Clinical and cardiac catheterization data demonstrated that children with the infracardiac type of TAPVC were referred very early in life and had the highest pulmonary artery pressures.

Experimental coronary air embolism. Assessment of time course of myocardial ischemia and the protective effect of cardiopulmonary bypass.

In 74 mongrel dogs 0.02 ml air/kg of body weight was injected into the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD). Forty-three dogs were studied without (group I) and 31 with (group II) extracorporeal circulation (ECC).