Improved results after the primary repair of interrupted aortic arch: impact of a new management protocol with isolated cerebral perfusion.

Objective: The aim of this retrospective study was to analyse results and risk factors of death after the repair of the interrupted aortic arch, and to compare results obtained with the use of deep hypothermic circulatory arrest versus isolated cerebral perfusion.

Methods: The primary repair of the interrupted aortic arch and associated heart lesions was performed in 50 consecutive patients. The median age was 5 days and the mean weight was 3.

Repair of persistent truncus arteriosus with interrupted aortic arch.

Objective: The aim of our study was to analyse experience with repair of truncus arteriosus with interrupted aortic arch.

Methods: Between 1993 and 2004, eight consecutive patients underwent repair of truncus arteriosus with interrupted aortic arch. The median age was 6.

Corrective surgery of congenital heart defects in neonates: the Prague experience.

Aim: To assess the outcome and mortality trend in newborns undergoing corrective surgery for congenital heart defect.

Method: We reviewed the hospital records of 1,033 neonates under 30 days of life, who had congenital heart defects operated on at the Kardiocentrum, Motol University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic, during 1977-2001. Early and late mortality and reoperation rates were analyzed.