Pulmonary artery sling: case report and surgical management.

Surgical correction of pulmonary artery sling with vascular ring in a 2 1/2-year-old boy is described. Despite the high mortality rate of this entity, the post-operative course was uneventful and since hospital discharge, the boy has remained asymptomatic.

[Total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage. Nine case reports (author's transl)].

Total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage is one of the cardiac malformations requiring early surgical correction. In our series of nine cases, 89% were under three months of age and none above six months. Clinically, two types were present: without obstruction and with obstruction to the pulmonary venous flow.

[Corrected transposition of the great arteries. Study of 14 cases (author's transl)].

We have studied 14 patients of corrected transposition, 12 with situs solitus and 2 with situs inversus. In all the patients, excepting one, a clinical, radiological and angiocardiographical study was performed. The associated anomalies were determining elements of the clinical situation; the patients with pulmonary obstruction and interventricular communication had cianosis, while the 4 patients with aortic obstruction or anomalies type left Ebstein show cardiac insufficiency.

[Pulmonary atresia with intact i.v. septum (author's transl)].

Eight cases of pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum, are reviewed. Three corresponded to the group with small or hypoplastic right ventricle and five to the one with normal or enlarged right ventricular cavity. The electrocardiogram was of less value than plain chest radiography for the differential diagnosis of both groups.