2.1 | Patient characteristics
The project was approved by the Ethics Committee of Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University. We screened and reviewed patients with a diagnosis of FSV and TAPVC were identified by echocardiography or CT scan from our central database. Patients with FSV and TAPVC without undergoing surgery were excluded.
In all 43 patients, initial surgical palliation procedures in our center included banding of the pulmonary trunk (PAB) in 4 patients, modified Blalock-Taussing shunt in 4 patients, BDG in 33, and Fontan procedure in 2. Other concomitant procedures included atrioventricular valvuloplasty in 4, PAB, that need to use to restrict excessive pulmonary blood flow during BDG, in 3. 12 patients need to perform TAPVC repair during BDG procedure. Subsequently, of these patients, BDG was performed in 2 patients, Fontan in 3.