title: [Reopening of ventricular septal defect after surgical repair: experience with 7 reoperated patients (author's transl)].
abstract: Reopening of ventricular septal defect after surgical repair was investigated -- from six months to five years after operation -- on 75 patients who had undergone closure of ventricular septal defect and on 65 patients who had undergone complete correction of tetralogy of Fallot. The complication appeared in 3 patients (4%) of the first group and in 4 (6%) of the second group, always early after the operation (from 24 hours to 2 months). All patients underwent reoperation - operative mortality rate was 66% in the first group and 25% in the second one. Operative mortality was higher in patients with cardiac and/or tricuspidal failure, also after prolonged preoperative medical treatment.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012008:Recurrence; D013529:Surgical Wound Dehiscence; D013771:Tetralogy of Fallot / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Reinterventi in sette casi di pervietà interventricolare recidiva