Early and long-term results of ventricular septal defect repair in children with severe pulmonary hypertension and elevated pulmonary vascular resistance by the double or traditional patch technique.

Objectives: In upper-income countries, infants undergo low-risk ventricular septal defect (VSD) repair. Children in low- and middle-income countries frequently present at older ages with elevated pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Expensive interventions for pulmonary hypertensive crisis are not available, and children are often denied an operation due to the mortality risk.

Sildenafil's Early, Late Impact on Ventricular Septal Repair: Older Children Using the Double Patch.

Background: Delayed diagnosis in children with a ventricular septal defect (VSD) is common in low- and middle-income countries. Consequently, these children present with elevated pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). The study investigators introduced the double-flap valve VSD patch closure technique (DFV) in 1996 to reduce early postoperative risk.

[; SURGICAL TREATMENT OF TRANSPOSITION OF THE GREAT ARTERIES AND AORTIC ARCH HYPOPLASIA].

Aortic arch hypoplasia is a congenital anomaly of the development of the aortic arch, characterized by hemodynamically significant narrowing of one or more segments of the aortic arch. The combination of simple transposition of the great arteries (TGA) and obstruction at the level of the aortic arch is not very common. However, when transposition is combined with the VSD, Taussig-Bing anomaly, this combination is more common.

[PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS IN CHILDREN, OPERATED ON FOR INBORN HEART FAILURES IN THE ARTIFICIAL BLOOD CIRCULATION ENVIRONMENT].

The risk factors of pulmonary complications occurrence were analyzed in children, operated on for inborn heart failures in atrificial blood circulation environment. Pulmonary complications rate and the risk factors of their occurrence were analyzed.

[PLASTY OF THE INTERVENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT, USING A PATCH WITH A VALVE IN PATIENTS, SUFFERING HIGH PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION AND ENHANCED RESISTANCE OF PULMONARY ARTERIES].

Right ventricle insufficiency due to pulmonary hypertensive crysis or persisting pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in patients after the interventricle septum defect (IVSD) closure with the heightened resistance of pulmonary arteries (RPA) constitutes an actual problem and associates with a high risk for a life-threatening complications and high lethality. Experience of the IVSD plasty conduction in a patient with high PAH, using a patch with a valve for right ventricle decompression while pulmonary hypertensive crysis in early postoperative period and nonreversible PAH in the remote period of observation, was presented. In the clinic 38 children were operated on for big IVSD, complicated by high PAH and heightened RPA, using a patch with a valve in 1996 - 2014 yrs.