title: [Surgery of symptomatic interauricular communication in the first year of life].
abstract: Symptomatic atrial septal defect (ASD) is rare in infancy and even more is symptomatic ASD requiring surgery at that age (13.7% and 3.7% respectively in our series). Our experience on surgery for symptomatic ASD in infancy with 6 cases out of 161 consecutive ASD surgically corrected during an experience of 17 years is presented. Ages ranged between 5 and 11 months (9.5 +/- 2.5 months) and weight between 4 and 6.400 kg (5.3 +/- 0.8 kg). In all cardiomegally was present with cardiothoracic ratio between 0.6 and 0.7 in 4 and over 0.7 in the remainder two cases. Isolated ASD was present in 3 cases, associated partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage ein 3 and additional ventricular septal defect in one. Mortality was present in one case due to hypoplasia of the left ventricular cavity. Follow up ranged between 30 and 156 months with a cumulative follow up of 442 months, mean 88.4 +/- 50.8 months/patient. Clinically all are asymptomatic without medication. Clinical and hemodynamic data file, surgery complications and possible risk factors for development symptomatology in the ASD in infancy are widely commented.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Cirugía cardíaca, Clínica Infantil La Paz, Madrid, España.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gordovilla Zurdo
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cabo Salvador
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Moreno Granados
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Alvarez Díaz
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications
vernacular_title: Cirugía de la comunicación interauricular sintomática en el primer año de la vida.