Robotic Surgery for Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Disease

Abstract

Onan and Onan are to be congratulated for their thoughtful analysis of 242 patients undergoing robotically assisted congenital cardiac surgery published in this issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.1 Mean age was 30.9 ± 12.1 years (range, 12-65 years). Thirty (12.3%) patients were younger than 18 years. In adolescents, median age was 16 years (range, 12-17 years) and median weight was 64 kg (range, 42-108 kg). Lesions repaired included secundum atrial septal defect (ASD) (74.7%), sinus venous ASD (16.1%), partial anomalous pulmonary venous connections (10.7%), widely patent foramen ovale (3.7%), ostium primum defects (2.5%), unroofed coronary sinus (1.2%), partial atrioventricular canal defects (2.5%), residual septal defects after failed percutaneous closure (1.2%), ventricular septal defect (0.4%), cor triatriatum sinister (0.4%), subvalvular aortic stenosis (0.4%), common atrium (0.4%), and double-chambered right ventricle (0.4%).