Complete Atrioventricular Septal Defect: Comparison of One-Stage Primary Repair With Two-Stage Surgical Strategy

Abstract

Complete Atrioventricular Septal Defect (CAVSD) is a congenital heart disease treated by surgical repair. There are two strategies for surgery: 1) Primary repair at lower ages (one-stage repair). 2) PA banding in lower age and then complete repair after normalization of PAP (Two-stage repair).The purpose of this study was comparison of mortality rate and short term complications of these two strategies