title: [Ventricular septal defect: Prognosis of spontaneous closure (author's transl)].
abstract: In a series of 150 cases of isolated ventricular septal defect (VSD), the authors have found 25 cases (16%) of spontaneous closure over an average period of observation of 20 months. The closure was observed in 32% of the cases before 6 months and in 60% before 12 months, with a range between 1 month and 8 years. The number of out patient with was 7 per case on average. A large group of parameters was taken into account in every case; from some of them, indicators of prognosis of closure were obtained, among them: early appearance of the murmur, descending shape, muscular character of the VSD, absence of symptoms and diastolic rumble, presence of ejection clic and normality in ECG and XRay.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006337:Heart Murmurs; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010701:Phonocardiography; D011379:Prognosis; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous
vernacular_title: Comunicación interventricular. Pronóstico de oclusión espontánea.