RT Book, Section
A1 Bacha, Emile A.
A2 Yuh, David D.
A2 Vricella, Luca A.
A2 Yang, Stephen C.
A2 Doty, John R.
SR Print(0)
ID 1104597275
T1 Congenitally Corrected Transposition
T2 Johns Hopkins Textbook of Cardiothoracic Surgery
YR 2014
FD 2014
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-166350-2
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1104597275
RD 2022/08/15
AB “Corrected  transposition,  when  first  encountered,  resembles  an  unreal  apparition….  All  of  the  important  people  were  there  doing  their  expert  job.  The  operation  began  well.  The  individual  cardiac  chambers  and  structures  were  present  and  accounted  for,  and  the  ventricular  septal  defect  was  in  the  perimembranous  location.  But  something  else  was  fundamentally  wrong.  Almost  everything  was  out  of  place  in  a  weird  mime  of  normal,  clearly  an  illusion  characteristic  of  another  nightmare.  There  seemed  no  choice  but  to  press  on  even  in  the  face  of  this  confusion,  hoping  as  always  that  by  applying  basic  principles  one  could  win  out.  The  ventricular  septal  defect  was  therefore  carefully  patched  so  as  to  avoid  the  conduction  system,  and  perfusion  was  discontinued.Heart  block  ensued,  cardiac  output  became  poor,  and  tragedy  loomed.”Dwight  McGoon,  19831