[Results of the cardiosurgical care delivery to teenagers and adult patients with inborn heart failures].

The results of surgical aid delivery to adult patients, suffering inborn heart failures (IHF), were analyzed for period of 15 yrs. Surgical activity in teenagers and adult patients, suffering IHF, was analyzed with the objective to create a management strategy for such patients. More close dispensary control of teenagers in a pediatrician-cardiologist was noted, while their transfer to the adult clinic it is necessary to follow them thoroughly together with dispensary registration.

[The Lecompte surgical procedure in transposition of great vessels].

The article presents the first experience gained with the use of the Lecompt operation in eleven patients presenting with transposition of the great vessels, ventricular septal defects, and pulmonary artery stenosis. The above procedure had been performed during the period 1995-1998, with the short-term and remote results having been analyzed. A detailed description is given of the surgical technique.

[Hemodynamic correction of the main vascular transposition].

From 1992 till 2000 yr 70 patients were operated on in the clinic for the main vessels transposition (MVT) using method of Senning. In the principal group 53 patients were incorporated suffering MVT with unchanged interventricular septum (IVS) and with its minimal defect as well. The IVS defect and concurrent anomalies were revealed in 17 patients.

[The anatomy of coronary arteries in the main vascular transposition].

The analysis of the coronary arteries (CA) morphology in the main vessels transposition (MVT) cases was presented, basing on the clinical and cadaveric investigations data. During performance of 88 operations there were revealed 8 different morphological variants of the CA branching. There were studied 8 heart macropreparations with MVT and there were disclosed 4 different types of the CA morphology.