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Arterial switch operation
The arterial switch operation (ASO), also called the arterial switch procedure, is an open-heart operation that corrects dextro-transposition of the great arteries by reconnecting the aorta and pulmonary artery, first performed successfully in 1975.
Biventricular repair
Biventricular repair is a surgical strategy in congenital heart disease that establishes a two-ventricle circulation, used when ventricle size and valve adequacy make it feasible.
Outflow tract reconstruction
Outflow tract reconstruction is a family of cardiac surgeries that rebuild the pathways carrying blood out of the heart's ventricles, most often in congenital defects like tetralogy of Fallot.
Right Heart Bypass
Right heart bypass: surgical principle routing systemic venous blood directly to the pulmonary arteries without a right ventricle, underlying the Glenn shunt (1958) and Fontan procedure (1971) for single-ventricle congenital heart disease.
Right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction
Right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction is congenital heart surgery that rebuilds the passage from the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery, central to repairing tetralogy of Fallot.
Septal defect repair
Septal defect repair is the closure of an abnormal opening between the heart's chambers, most often an atrial or ventricular septal defect, by surgery or a transcatheter occluder device.
Septostomy
Septostomy is a catheter procedure that creates or enlarges an opening in a bodily septum, most often the heart's atrial septum, to relieve pressure or improve blood flow.
Tetralogy of Fallot repair
Tetralogy of Fallot repair is an open-heart operation that corrects the congenital defect by closing the ventricular septal defect and relieving right ventricular outflow obstruction, routinely performed in infancy since the 1950s.