Survival and Freedom From Reinterventions in Patients With Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot: Up to 42-Year Follow-Up of 917 Patients

Abstrakt

Background To evaluate long-term outcome of tetralogy of Fallot repair analyzing an unbiased country-wide surgically treated population with tetralogy of Fallot. Methods and Results Retrospective analysis of consecutive patients aged 90% at 30 years.

Each reintervention significantly incrementally increased the risk of mortality. Type of initial repair predicted the need for specific surgical or catheter reinterventions.

Klíčová slova

• outcome
• pulmonary valve replacement
• surgical repair
• tetralogy of Fallot