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The Arterial Switch Operation Before Jatene

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Attempts at the arterial switch operation predated the Senning and the Mustard venous switch procedures. No patients survived the earlier arterial switch methods. Therefore, from the 1960s to the 1980s, venous switch surgeries became the dominant treatment method for transposition of the great arteries. The Brazilian cardiac surgeon, Adib Jatene, reported the first successful arterial switch in 1975. The history of the earlier arterial switches performed in the 1950s and 1960s is not well known. This article discusses that early history.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank Dr. Ruben Acherman, Professor of Pediatrics at the University Nevada School of Medicine, for suggestions and figures design, and Dr. Paul R. Lurie, Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Southern California and Senior Research Consultant to Children’s Heart Center–Nevada, for suggestions and editorial assistance.

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    W. N. Evans

  2. Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Nevada School of Medicine, 2040 W. Charleston Boulevard Ste. 402, Las Vegas, NV, 89109, USA

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Evans, W.N. The Arterial Switch Operation Before Jatene. Pediatr Cardiol 30, 119–124 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00246-008-9300-6

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