SUCCESSFUL ARTERIAL SWITCH OPERATION IN A LOW-BIRTH-WEIGHT NEONATE WHO HAD TRANSPOSITION OF THE GREAT-ARTERIES AND ADVANCED NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS

A low-birth-weight (LBW; 1,940 g) girl was born at the gestational age of 36 weeks without any perinatal insult. Transposition of the great arteries (TGA) with a large patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) and interat rial shunt was detected. Stage IIIB necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) de veloped 46 hours after birth. She received ileostomy and drainage. Art erial switch operation was successfully performed at 23 days of age wh en her weight was 1,900 g, The enterostomy was successfully repaired a t 104 days of age. Copyright (C) 1998 by W.B. Saunders Company.