Successful stenting of systemic venous pathway stenosis after double switch repair for congenitally corrected transposition of great arteries in a child

• Published in: Türk Kardiyoloji Derneği arşivi Vol. 42; no. 6; pp. 571 - 573
• Main Authors: Saygılı, Arda, Yalçınbaş, Yusuf, Arnaz, Ahmet, Sarıoğlu, Tayyar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Turkey KARE Publishing 01.09.2014
• Subjects: Child; Coronary Angiography; Diagnosis, Differential; double switch; stenosis; transposition of great arteries; stents; Humans; Male; Postoperative Complications - diagnostic imaging; Postoperative Complications - therapy; Stents; Superior Vena Cava Syndrome - complications; Superior Vena Cava Syndrome - diagnostic imaging; Superior Vena Cava Syndrome - therapy; Transposition of Great Vessels - complications; Transposition of Great Vessels - diagnostic imaging; Transposition of Great Vessels - surgery
• ISSN: 1016-5169; 1016-5169
• DOI: 10.5543/tkda.2014.43788

An 8-year-old boy with previous shunt operation for corrected transposition of great arteries, ventricular septal defect, pulmonary stenosis and multiple aortopulmonary collateral arteries underwent corrective surgery. In the early post-operative period, there were clinical findings of superior vena cava obstruction. Cardiac catheterization at 72 h following surgery showed a systemic venous baffle stenosis between the vena cava and right atrium. A stent was successfully implanted in the vena cava percutaneously, and the stenosis was relieved. Her symptoms resolved in a short time period, and she was extubated rapidly. During the follow-up, excellent maintenance and patency of systemic venous baffle were observed.