Mid-term Results After Surgical Correction of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection
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Objective: To evaluate the surgical treatment
of total anomalous pulmonary venous
connection (TAPVC) and determination
of predictors for postoperative death.
Method & Material: Between 1995 and 2005,
80 patients aged from 1 month to 12 years
underwent surgical repair for supracardiac
(39), Cardiac (34), infracardiac (3) or
mixed (4) type of TAPVC. There were an
atrial communication in all patients, large
PFO in 23% and ASD in 77%. Systemic
pulmonary hypertension (PH) in 53.8%
of patients, half systemic PH in 26.3%
and mild PH (