The Analysis of the Risk Factors in the Arterial Switch Operation for Treatment of D-Transposition of the Great Arteries in One Pediatric Cardiac Center in Serbia.

Introduction: The arterial "switch" operation has been the operation of choice for children born with D-transposition of the great arteries (D-TGA) for more than 30 years in countries with developed pediatric cardiac surgery program. After two decades of successful treatment of these children with the atrial "switch" corrections (Mustard or Senning operative techniques), the arterial "switch"operation (ASO) had been introduced as a routine technique in one pediatric cardiac center in Serbia.

Objective: The aim of this study was the analysis of the identified risk factors involved with the ASO in the preoperative, operative and postoperative period and their impact on the survival of the operated children.

Balloon dilation and surgical valvotomy comparison in non-critical congenital aortic valve stenosis.

Percutaneous balloon aortic valvoplasty (BAV) and surgical aortic valvotomy (SAV) are palliative procedures in patients with non-critical congenital valve stenosis. The aim of the study was to evaluate long-term BAV and SAV results after up to 24 years of follow-up. From 1987 to 2013, 74 consecutive interventions were performed in patients with aortic stenosis, and 62 were included in the study (39 BAVs and 23 SAVs).

Costovertebral rib disarticulation and pleurectomy in Askin's tumor: a mandatory approach to radical surgery in children? Case report and guiedelines to surgical treatment.

The case report of Askin's tumor in a 16-year-old girl is focused on the still debatable surgical contg roversy in the treatment of PNET tumor, i.e., whether disarticulation of involved rib at the costovertabral joint should be accepted as the mandatory surgical procedure.

Age-related role of ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring in risk stratification of patients with complete congenital atrioventricular block.

Aims: The aim of the paper was to assess the importance of 24 h electrocardiographic Holter monitoring in determining predictive factors for Adams-Stokes (AS) attacks and heart failure (HF) in children and adolescents with complete congenital atrioventricular block (CCAVB).

Methods And Results: Forty-five patients were divided into two groups according to the presence of AS attacks and HF and six age-related subgroups. The following parameters of 24 h electrocardiographic Holter monitoring were analysed: (i) minimum heart rate (HR), (ii) maximum HR, (iii) average HR, (iv) daytime HR (v) rhythm and conduction disturbance.

Echocardiographic analysis of the subtypes of right ventricular restrictive physiology in surgically treated patients with tetralogy of Fallot.

Background: Our study focuses on echocardiographic assessment of the right ventricular diastolic function and adaptive right ventricular response to volume overload resulting from pulmonary and tricuspid regurgitation in surgically treated patients with tetralogy of Fallot.

Method And Results: We included 60 patients subsequent to surgical correction of tetralogy of Fallot, dividing them into two groups - a group of 18 patients with restrictive physiology, having antegrade flow to the pulmonary arteries greater than 30 centimetres per second in late diastole in five consecutive beats, and a group of 42 patients with non-restrictive physiology. Based on the cardiothoracic ratio, being more or equal to, or less than 0.

Extending the boundaries of the primary arterial switch operation in patients with transposition of the great arteries and intact ventricular septum.

Background: We have previously suggested that the primary arterial switch operation is a feasible strategy for patients with transposition of the great arteries and intact ventricular septum (TGA-IVS) up to age 2 months. This study reports our current results with this approach and examines whether this policy could be extended beyond age 2 months.

Methods And Results: 380 patients who underwent arterial switch for TGA-IVS were reviewed.