Introduction

 Transposition of the Great Arteries

Williams WG, McCrindle BW, Ashburn DA, Jonas RA, Mavroudis C, Blackstone EH and members of the Congenital Heart Surgeon’s Society. Outcomes of 829 neonates with complete transposition of the great arteries 12 – 17 years after repair. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery 24(2003) 1-10

E.L. Culbert, D. A. Ashburn, G. Cullen-Dean, J. J. Joseph, W. G. Williams, E. H. Blackstone, B. W. McCrindle, and the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society. Quality of Life of Children After Repair of Transposition of the Great Arteries. Circulation. 2003;108:857-862.

Castaneda AR, Trusler GA, Paul MH, Blackstone EH, Kirklin JW, and the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society: The early results of treatment of simple transposition in the current era. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 1988: 95: pp 14-27.

Kirklin JW, Blackstone EH, Tchervenkov CI, Castaneda AR: Clinical outcomes after the arterial switch operation for transposition. Patient, support, procedural, and institutional risk factors. Congenital Heart Surgeons Society. Circulation 1992: 86(5): pp 1501-1515.

Norwood WI, Dobell AR, Freed MD, Kirklin JW, Blackstone EH, and the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society: Intermediate results of the arterial switch repair. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 1988: 96: pp 854-862.

Turley K, Verrier ED: Intermediate results from the period of the Congenital Heart Surgeons Transposition Study: 1985-1989. Congenital Heart Surgeons Society Database. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 1995: 60(3): pp 505-510

 

Trusler GA, Castaneda AR, Rosenthal A, Blackstone EH, Kirklin JW, and the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society: Current result of management in transposition of the great arteries, with special emphasis on patients with associated ventricular septal defect. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1987: 10: pp 1061-1071.

Wells, W.J., Blackstone EH, and the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society: Intermediate outcome after Mustard and Senning procedures: A Study by the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society. Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Annual of the Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 3, 2000,pp 186-197.

Williams WG, Quaegebeur JM, Kirklin JW, Blackstone EH, and the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society: Outflow obstruction after the arterial switch operation: A multiinstitutional study. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 1997: 114: pp 975-90.

 Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum

D. A. Ashburn, E. H. Blackstone, W. J. Wells, R. A. Jonas, F. A. Pigula, G. K. Lofland, P. B. Manning, W. G. Williams, B. W. McCrindle, and the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society. Determinants of Mortality and Type of Repair in Neonates with Pulmonary Atresia – Intact Ventricular Septum.  Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery . Volume127, Issue4 , April 2004, Pages 1000-1008

Hanley FL, Sade RM, Blackstone EH, Kirklin JW, Freedom RM, Nanda NC, and the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society: Outcomes in neonatla Pulmonary Atresia with intact ventricular septum. A multiinstitutional study.  Journal of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery 1993; 105:406-27. 

Hanley FL, Sade RM, Freedom RM, Blackstone EH, Kirklin JW, and the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society: Outcomes in critically ill neonates with pulmonary stenosis and intact ventricular septum: A multiinstitutional study. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1993: 22(1): pp 183-192.

 Interrupted Aortic Arch

Anusha Jegatheeswaran, Interrupted Aortic Arch Study Proposal, Second Joint Meeting CHSS/ECHSA, Warsaw, Poland; September 12 – 13, 2008.

Konstantinov IE, Karamlou T, Blackstone EH, Mosca RS, Lofland GK, Caldarone CA, Williams WG, Mackie AS, McCrindle BW for the members of the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society Study; Truncus Arteriosus Associated with Interrupted Aortic Arch in 50 Neonates: A Congenital Heart Surgeons’ Society Study. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2006; 81:214-23

Konstantinov IE, Karamlou T, Williams WG, Quaegebeur JM, delNido PJ, Spray TL, Caldarone CA, Blackstone EH, McCrindle BW, and the members of Congenital Heart Surgeons Society; Surgical Management of Aorto-Pulmonary Window Associated with Interrupted Aortic Arch:  A Congenital Heart Surgeon’s Society Study  Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2006: 131:1136-41

McCrindle BW, Tchervenkov CI, Konstantinov IE, , Rodolfo A Neirotti RA, Jacobs ML, Blackstone EH; Risk Factors Associated With Mortality and Reinterventions in 474 Neonates with Interruption of the Aortic Arch: A Congenital Heart Surgeons Society Study. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2005:129(2).

Jonas RA, Quaegebeur JM, Kirklin JW, Blackstone EH, Daicoff G: Outcomes in patients with interrupted aortic arch and ventricular septal defect. A multiinstitutional study. Congenital Heart Surgeons Society. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 1994: 107(4): pp 1099-1113.

Chin AJ, Jocobs ML: Morphology of the ventricular septal defect in two types of interrupted aortic arch. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography 1996: 9(2): pp 199-201.

 Tricuspid Atresia

Karamlou T, Ashburn DA, Caldarone CA, Blackstone EH, Jonas RA, Jacobs ML, Williams WG, Ungerleider RM, and McCrindle BW, for the Members of the Congenital Heart Surgeons’ Society; Matching Procedure to Morphology Improves Outcomes in Neonates with Tricuspid Atresia. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, December 2005, 130 (6), pp.1503-1510.

 Pulmonary Conduit

Hickey EJ, McCrindle BW, Blackstone EH, Yeh T, Pigula F, Clarke D, Tchervenkov CI, Hawkins J and the CHSS Pulmonary Conduit Working Group. Jugular venous valved conduit (Contegra®) matches allograft performance in infant truncus arteriosus repair. European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery. 2008; 33(5): 890-898

Karamlou T, Blackstone EH, Hawkins JW, Jacobs ML, Kanter KR, Brown JW, Mavroudis C, Caldarone CA, Williams WG, McCrindle BW, and the Pulmonary Conduit Working Group for the members of the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society; Can Pulmonary Conduit Dysfunction and Failure be Reduced in Infants and Children Less Than Age Two Years at Initial Implantation?Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, October 2006, 132 (4), pp 829-838.

 Coarctation of the Aorta

Quaegebeur JM, Jonas RA, Weinberg A, Blackstone EH, Kirklin JW, and the congenital Heart Surgeons Society: Outcomes in seriously ill neonates with coarctation of the aorta: A multiinstitutional study. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 1994: 108: pp 841-54 .

 Aortic Valve Atresia

Ashburn DA, McCrindle BW, Tchervenkov CI, Jacobs ML, Lofland GK, Bove EL, Spray TL, Williams WG. Outcomes after the Norwood operation in neonates with critical aortic stenosis or aortic valve atresia.  Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, May 2003, 1070-1082.

Jacobs ML, Blackstone EH, Bailey LL and the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society:Intermediate survival in neonates with aortic atresia: a multi-institutional study. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 1998;116:pp 417-31 .

 LVOTO

Hickey EJ, Caldarone CA, Blackstone EH, Williams WG, Yeh T, Pizarro C, Lofland G, Tchervenkov CI, Pigula F, McCrindle BW and the Congenital Heart Surgeons’ Society. Biventricular repair of critical left ventricular outflow tract obstruction: the high mortality associated with early re-intervention (submitted).

Edward J Hickey,Christo I Tchervenkov , Thomas Yeh Jr, Brian W McCrindle, Jeffrey P Jacobs , Francois Lacour-Gayet,Christopher A Caldarone, Christian Pizarro, Complex biventricular repair of critical LVOTO Outcomes of Ross and Yasui operation. EACTS. 2008

Edward J. Hickey, MD, Christopher A. Caldarone, MD,* Eugene H. Blackstone, MD, Gary K. Lofland, MD,Thomas Yeh, Jr, MD, Christian Pizarro, MD, Christo I. Tchervenkov, MD, Frank Pigula, MD, David M. Overman, MD,Marshall L. Jacobs, MD, Brian W. McCrindle, MD,* and the Congenital Heart Surgeons’ Society; Critical left ventricular outflow tract obstruction:The disproportionate impact of biventricular repair in borderline cases.  The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Sep 2007, pp1429-1436 

 Aortic Valve Stenosis

Lofland G., McCrindle B, Wiliams W, Blackstone E, Tchervenkov C, Sittwangkul R., Jonas R, and the Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society Critical Aortic Stenosis in the neonate: a Multi-institutional study of management, outcomes and risk factors. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2001;121:pp10-27;

McCrindle, B.W., Blackstone,E H, Willams, W.G., Sittiwangkul, R., Spray, T.L., Azakie, A, Jonas, R.A.,and the Congenital Heart Surgeons:' Society Are Outcomes of Surgical Versus Transcatheter Balloon Valvotomy Equivalent in Neonatal Critical Aortic Stenosis? Circulation 2001 104[Suppl I]:I-152 -I-158.

Joseph J.J., McCrindle, B.W., Williams, W.G. A website calculator for estimating risk with one vs. two ventricle repair for neonates with critical aortic stenosis.

  Unbanlanced AVSD

 Other

Karamlou, T, McCrindle BW, Blackstone EH, Caldarone CA, Cai S, Ashburn DA, Williams, WG. Lesion Specific Outcomes Are Related Predominantly to Patient and Management Factors Rather Than Institutional Volume: A Congenital Heart Surgeons Society Study. (In preparation)