We welcome your participation in a multi-institutional retrospective clinical study of the rare form of d-Transposition of the Great Arteries (d-TGA), with Intact Ventricular Septum (IVS) and Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction (LVOTO).

[Survey closed ]

Inclusion criteria:
d-TGA, IVS
LVOTO (Fixed, Dynamic or both)

Exclusion criteria:
Presence of a VSD

Time Period:
1992 -2022

Participating Organizations:
ECHSA
WSPCHS
CHSS
AEPC

Principal Investigators:
Vladimiro Vida, Padova, Italy
Christo I. Tchervenkov, Montreal, Canada

TGA, IVS, LVOTO Working Group:
Vladimiro Vida, Padova, Italy
Christo I. Tchervenkov, Montreal, Canada
James D. St. Louis, Augusta, USA
George E. Sarris, Athens, Greece
David M Overman, Minneapolis, USA
James K. Kirklin, Birmingham, USA
Jeffrey P. Jacobs, Gainesville, USA
Claudia Herbst, Vienna, Austria
Andrzej Kansy, Warsaw, Poland
Husain Esmaeil, Montreal, Canada
Alvise Guariento, Padova, Italy
Claudia Cattapan, Padova, Italy

James S. Tweddell, MD
September 2, 1959 – July 1, 2022 

Dr. Aldo R. Castañeda
July 17, 1930 – April 30, 2021

We announce with sorrow the passing of the Apollonian surgeon, Aldo R. Castañeda. On behalf of the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, we express our profound gratitude for having blazed the trail for your students and colleagues and helped the lives of so many children around the world! We present our sincere condolences to his wife, Arcely, his children, Claudia, Silvana and Aldo and to all grieving this loss.

Farewell and Godspeed, dear teacher and esteemed colleague!

— WSPCHS Governing Council

We have unlocked the full interview we did with Dr. Castaneda in 2010. You can watch it here.

Bill Norwood
April 21, 1941 – Dec 13, 2020

It is with sadness that we announce the passing on December 13, of the legendary surgeon, Bill Norwood. On behalf of the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, we thank you Bill for your immense contributions, Farewell, and Godspeed!

WSPCHS Governing Council

Below is a heartfelt message from his colleague and close friend, Marshall Jacobs.

“I write to let you know that Bill Norwood passed away on the evening of December 13, 2020.

Bill and Jodee moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico about three years ago.

Having spent part of his youth in Los Alamos (just 60 miles from Albuquerque), Bill was drawn to the area. He and Jodee loved the geography and the climate in the semi-desert foothills of the Sandia Mountains. Fortunately, they have been visited often by close friends and family.

Bill's passing leaves a tremendous void, in a space occupied for nearly eight decades by one of the true giants in the field of surgery, and a great friend and very special mentor to so many of us.
Isaac Newton is quoted as saying: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants."

Bill was truly a giant in this respect. His genius, his determination, his skill and his generosity have touched so many of us. And individuals in all parts of the world who are engaged in the care of patients with congenital heart disease have "seen further" and been more effective in their work because of Bill's enormous and countless contributions.

Thank you Bill...thank you and farewell!”

Dr. Marshall Jacobs