title: Correction versus palliation of congenital heart diseases in the first year of life.
abstract: In the period 1971-1981 220 children below 1 year of age have been operated upon in our Hospital for Congenital Heart Diseases (CHD). Among them, 125 children were selected, in whom, because of the type of CHD present, either a palliation or a correction could have been chosen as the surgical approach. The first three common malformation treated are presented.
mesh_terms: D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010166:Palliative Care; D013771:Tetralogy of Fallot / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D014188:Transposition of Great Vessels / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*