What is a baffle procedure?

What is a baffle procedure?

A baffle is a surgically-created tunnel or wall within the heart or major blood vessels used to redirect the flow of blood. They are used in some types of heart abnormalities that a child is born with known as congenital heart defects.

What is a double switch heart surgery?

A double switch operation is used to correct congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (or L-TGA). In congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries, both the ventricles (pumping chambers) and great vessels (aorta & pulmonary trunk) are transposed (on the opposite side).

What causes TGA of heart?

Because of this, transposition of the great arteries is called a cyanotic congenital heart defect. Although some factors, such as genetics, rubella or other viral illnesses during pregnancy, maternal age over 40, or maternal diabetes, may increase the risk of this condition, in most cases the cause is unknown.

What is a baffle leak?

Baffle leaks: Small leaks commonly occur over time in the Mustard baffles and cause lower oxygen in the body (blueness or cyanosis) when blue blood again mixes with the red blood and goes out to the body.

How rare is Cctga?

About 0.5%–1% of all babies born with heart defects have CCTGA. This means there are about 5,000–10,000 people in the United States with CCTGA.

How many babies are born with TGA?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that about 1,153 babies are born with TGA each year in the United States. This means that every 1 in 3,413 babies born in the US is affected by this defect.

What do you need to know about the Mustard operation?

The Mustard Operation is a surgical technique to correct a heart condition called the transposition of the great arteries (TGA). TGA is a birth defect in which the placement of the two arteries, the pulmonary artery, which supplies deoxygenated blood to the lungs, and the aorta, which takes oxygenated blood to the body are switched.

Do you need a pacemaker after a Mustard operation?

Patients who have had the Mustard or Senning operation may need catheterization techniques or surgery to correct abnormalities of the tunnel in the atria, repair abnormal valves or control rhythm disturbances. Slow as well as fast heart rhythms are common so many patients with these operations need pacemakers eventually.

What happens to the heart after a mustard transposition?

They may have valve leakage or coronary artery problems, however. People with repaired transposition, especially those who’ve had the Mustard or Senning operation, are at risk of developing heart rhythm abnormalities (arrhythmias). These arrhythmias often arise in the heart’s upper chambers. Your child’s heart rate may be too slow or too fast.

Why was a mustard baffle placed in the heart?

Before placing the baffle in the heart, Mustard treated the patient with a blood thinner to prevent blood clots from developing during and after surgery and sewed the baffle to the heart to redirect blood flow.

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