This paper aims to update clinicians on “hot topics” in the management of patients with D-
loop transposition of the great arteries (D-TGA) in the current surgical era. The arterial switch …

Advances in surgical and clinical management of congenital heart disease (CHD) have
allowed patients to survive into adulthood. The number of adult congenital heart disease …

EACTS Clinical Guidelines Committee Members: Miguel Sousa-Uva (Chairperson)(Portugal
), Umberto Benedetto (UK), Giuseppe Cardillo (Italy), Manuel Castella (Spain), Martin …

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to assess our 43-year experience with arterial
switch operation (ASO) for transposition of the great arteries (TGA) by analysing cardiac …

Objectives The arterial switch operation (ASO) has excellent early outcomes in the modern
era. We sought to determine the long-term outcomes in patients who underwent an ASO at a …

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance has been utilized in the management and care of
pediatric patients for nearly 40 years. It has evolved to become an invaluable tool in the …

Objective To evaluate long-term performance of the aortic valve after an arterial switch
operation (ASO), in terms of regurgitation and reoperation. Methods A longitudinal analysis …

The arterial switch operation has excellent early outcomes. Although the majority of patients
are growing into healthy adults, a small subset require reoperation for pulmonary stenosis …

This paper presents a three-dimensional numerical analysis of a flat plate solar air heater in
the presence of a pin fin array using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software tool …

Background Arterial switch operation (ASO) is today the first-choice surgical treatment for
patients with transposition of the great arteries. Long-term outcome data still remain scarce …