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.