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  • Title: [Reopening of ventricular septal defect after surgical repair: experience with 7 reoperated patients (author's transl)].
    Author: Rabitti G, Giordano F, Massa E, Baruffi E, Chidichimo G.
    Journal: G Ital Cardiol; 1976; 6(7):1310-2. PubMed ID: 1010241.
    Abstract:
    Reopening of ventricular septal defect after surgical repair was investigated -- from six months to five years after operation -- on 75 patients who had undergone closure of ventricular septal defect and on 65 patients who had undergone complete correction of tetralogy of Fallot. The complication appeared in 3 patients (4%) of the first group and in 4 (6%) of the second group, always early after the operation (from 24 hours to 2 months). All patients underwent reoperation - operative mortality rate was 66% in the first group and 25% in the second one. Operative mortality was higher in patients with cardiac and/or tricuspidal failure, also after prolonged preoperative medical treatment.
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