[Long-term follow up of children with transposition of great vessels with intact interventricular septum].
From January 1971 to January 1988, 140 patients were diagnosed of complete transposition of the great arteries with an intact ventricular septum. These patients are the 6% of the 2,322 children diagnosed of congenital heart disease by catheterization and angiography in this 17 year period. The overall mortality was 63.5%. Sixty children died at a mean age of 55 days before cardiac surgery was performed, mostly before 1982. Forty nine patients underwent a Senning procedure with a surgical mortality of 30.6%. Between 1983 and 1988, with the use of infusion of prostaglandin E in the neonatal period, 28 children underwent a Senning procedure at a mean age of 12 months with a surgical mortality of 17.8%, and an actuarial survival rate of 80.9%. At late examination the 55.8% of the survivors were asymptomatic and the 8.8% showed caval or pulmonary venous obstruction.
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Departamento de Pediatría, Hospital Infantil La Fe, Universidad de Valencia.
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D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D013030:Spain; D015996:Survival Rate; D014188:Transposition of Great Vessels / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*
Seguimiento a largo plazo de niños con transposición de las grandes arterias con septo interventricular íntegro.