Fourteen- to nineteen-year follow-up after corrective repair for tetralogy of Fallot
| Autor: | Poul Lauridsen, Inge H. Rygg, Alf Wennevold, Fritz Efsen, Joes Ramsøe Jacobsen |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 1982 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Pump failure Adolescent business.industry Follow up studies Arrhythmias Cardiac medicine.disease Surgery Postoperative Complications Quality of life Cardiothoracic surgery Heart catheterization medicine Quality of Life Tetralogy of Fallot Humans Female Occupations Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Child Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Scandinavian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. 16(1) |
| ISSN: | 0036-5580 |
| Popis: | A long-term follow-up was made of the first 28 patients who survived corrective repair for tetralogy of Fallot at the Department of Thoracic Surgery R, Rigshospitalet. Copenhagen. They were discharged in the years 1960–1964. There were 20 males and 8 females. The age at operation was 6–41 years (median 12 years). Nineteen patients had previous palliative operations. All of them had one or more postoperative clinical examinations at the hospital and 18 had postoperative heart catheterizations. Six patients had died, five within 10 years after operation (21.4%: 95% confidence limits 8.3–41.0%). Four late deaths were clearly related to residual cardiovascular abnormalities, insufficient VSD closure being the main problem. One further death was due to a malignant arrhythmia provoked at the routine postoperative heart catheterization. Two deaths were sudden, one in a patient with a ruptured VSD. The only patient with transient a-v block postoperatively, who later died, did so from pump failure after the second... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|