Mid-term Results After Surgical Correction of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection

Abstract

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 (