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CASE REPORT

A 63-Year-Old Male with D-Transposition of the Great Arteries Who Had an Early Form of the Arterial Switch Operation

by Michael A. Rebolledo^1,*, Jane S. Yao², Jason N. Johnson¹, Umar S. Boston³, Benjamin R. Waller III¹

1 Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, The Heart Institute, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, USA
2 College of Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science, Memphis, USA
3 Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Heart Institute, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, USA

* Corresponding Author: Michael A. Rebolledo. Email:

Congenital Heart Disease 2024, 19(1), 65-68. https://doi.org/10.32604/chd.2024.046638

Received 09 October 2023; Accepted 24 January 2024; Issue published 20 March 2024

Abstract

We describe a 63-year-old male who appears to have undergone an early form of the arterial switch operation for D-transposition of the great arteries performed in the mid-1960s. We review the clinical and imaging data that support our conclusion. He had a diagnostic cardiac catheterization which demonstrated severe pulmonary hypertension responsive to epoprostenol and oxygen. Our case may represent one example of the experimental surgical work done prior to Dr. Adibe Jatene’s description of the first successful arterial switch performed in 1975.

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