Systemic- Pulmonary Artery Shunt R. Baghaei MD, et al. A 15-Year Experience with an Old but Still Challenging Operation: the Systemic-Pulmonary Artery Shunt (original) (raw)

2015

Abstract

Objective- The true incidence of congenital cardiovascular malformations is difficult to determine accurately, partly because of difficulties in definition. About 0.8 percent of live births are complicated by a cardiovascular malformation. Hypoxia and cyanosis, the common complications of all cyanotic disease, may be life-threatening in severe forms. Today, the trend is towards the total surgical correction of these anomalies in early life. As the accomplishment of this strategy in various parts of the world is not possible, palliative procedures like systemic-pulmonary shunt have retained their importance. Methods- Data were collected from the files of 180 patients, for whom systemic-pulmonary shunt was performed by a single surgical group at our center between March 1992 and May 2006. Our aim was to determine the outcome of shunt operation in terms of success rate, morbidity, and mortality. Results- The median age and weight of the patients was 24 months and 10.5 kilograms, respec...

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