[Late results of the surgical treatment of tetralogy of Fallot in children operated on in the 1st year of life].
Thirty-seven children who had been operated on for tetralogy of Fallot during the first year of life were examined in remote postoperative periods (in 5 years and 5 months, on the average). They all underwent palliative operations. The condition of 78.4% of them in remote postoperative periods was found to be good or satisfactory; in 8 patients (21.6% the result of the operation was poor. With prolongation of the follow-up period, the effect of the operation tends to be less favourable than in the initial period. The causes aggravating the patients, condition in the remote periods are: an anatomically unfavourable variant of the anomaly, the development of hypo- or hyperfunction of the anastomosis, faults in the surgical techniques of the operation.
D000790:Angiocardiography; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D013771:Tetralogy of Fallot / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*
Otdalennye rezul'taty khirurgicheskogo lecheniia tetrady Fallo u deteĭ, operirovannykh na perbom godu zhizni.