The Surgical Management of Transposition of the Great Vessels

Paediatric cardiology: The last 50 years

“…However, untreated, it is almost uniformly fatal and it accounted for about one-fifth of infant cardiac deaths in the pre-surgical era. 19 The atrial switch procedures of Senning 20 and Mustard 21 were described by the early 1960s. However, as discussed above, affected infants were often precarious at surgery and consequently did badly.…”

Simplified Demonstration of Cavotricuspid Isthmus Block After Catheter Ablation in Patients After Mustard's Operation

“…The Mustard operation was introduced for the treatment of TGA in the early 1960s. 11 It described a technique to redirect the inflow to the ventricles by the clever use of atrial baffles (tunnels). A tunnel is created to redirect the systemic veins (superior vena cava [SVC] and IVC) to the mitral valve.…”

Natural history of a systemic right ventricle

“…Bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment for morbid obesity, leading to durable weight loss, improved quality of life, remission of type 2 diabetes, reduced cardiovascular events, cancer and total mortality. [1][2][3] National prioritisation criteria for bariatric surgery in New Zealand is based on likely reversal of metabolic and physical effects and relative need, balanced by risk for complications. 4 However, each district health board (DHB) has its own local bariatric surgery selection pathway.…”

“…The earliest corrective surgical procedures, the Mustard and Senning operations were first performed in the early 1960s. 1,2 The Mustard procedure involved creating an atrial baffle such that systemic venous blood returning to the right atrium was baffled through the left sided mitral valve, into the left ventricle (LV) onto the pulmonary artery, while pulmonary venous return to the left atrium was baffled through the right sided tricuspid valve, through the right ventricle (RV) to the aorta (Fig. 1).…”