Results of systemic-to-pulmonary artery anastomosis for tricuspid atresia with reduced pulmonary blood flow.
AUTOR(ES)
Crupi, G
RESUMO
Fifty-six patients with tricuspid atresia and decreased pulmonary blood flow received a systemic-to-pulmonary artery anastomosis as a preliminary operation. Thirty-five had a Waterston shunt, 12 a Blalock-Taussig anastomosis, and nine various other procedures. The age at operation ranged from 2 days to 10 years (median 4.5 months). Pulmonary atresia was present in eight newborn infants. Four patients (7%), all less than 3 months old, died in hospital from persistent servere hypoxia despite the palliative procedure. By actuarial methods, 93% of the survivors were alive at and after one year (longest follow-up:9.8 years), while 83% had not required further palliation at and after four years from the first operation. None of the patients subsequently restudied had raised pulmonary pressure or resistances, and in most of them the pulmonary arterial tree was deemed adequate for the Fontan operation.
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