Erkut Öztürk

Association of the Vasoactive-Inotropic Score with Postoperative Intensive Care Unit Stay Following Arterial Switch Operation

Introduction: Transposition of the great arteries (TGA) is one of the most common cyanotic congenital heart diseases in the neonatal period, and arterial switch operation (ASO) is the standard surgical treatment. Postoperative low cardiac output syndrome remains an important caus...

Incremental Anatomical Value of CT Angiography Beyond Echocardiography in the Preoperative Assessment of Pediatric Conotruncal Anomalies: A Surgical Correlation Study

Background: Conotruncal anomalies frequently involve extracardiac vascular structures that are critical for surgical planning yet incompletely assessed by transthoracic echocardiography (TTE). We evaluated the incremental diagnostic value of CT angiography (CTA) beyond TTE using...