The development of pulmonary vascular obstructive disease after successful Mustard operation in early infancy

Circulation. 1978 Jul;58(1):181-5. doi: 10.1161/01.cir.58.1.181.

Abstract

Pulmonary vascular obstructive disease developed postoperatively in an infant with aortopulmonary transposition and intact ventricular septum who underwent a Mustard operation in 3 months of age. Preoperative catheterization had shown normal pulmonary artery pressures. Four months after surgery, catheterization showed pulmonary artery systolic pressure above the systemic level and a tortuous, attenuated pulmonary vascular tree visualized angiographically. Early corrective surgery may not preclude the development of pulmonary vascular obstructive disease in patients with aortopulmonary transposition.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Blood Pressure
  • Heart Ventricles
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Lung / blood supply*
  • Male
  • Postoperative Complications*
  • Pressure
  • Thrombosis / etiology
  • Transposition of Great Vessels / complications*
  • Transposition of Great Vessels / surgery
  • Vascular Diseases / etiology*
  • Vascular Diseases / physiopathology