Long-term results of left ventricular reconditioning and anatomic correction for systemic right ventricular dysfunction after atrial switch procedures

ObjectivesSystemic right ventricular failure after atrial switch procedures for transposition of the great arteries has been addressed at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital (1981-1993) and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (1993-2001) with reconditioning of the morphologically left ventricle by means of pulmonary artery banding followed by an arterial switch operation and an atrial reseptation.MethodsThirty-nine patients (Royal Children's...