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  • Title: Rupture of a synthetic VSD patch 28 years after total correction of Fallot's anomaly.
    Author: Kühme T, Säfström K, Nielsen NE, Nylander E, Olin C.
    Journal: Ann Thorac Surg; 2006 Apr; 81(4):1510-2. PubMed ID: 16564311.
    Abstract:
    Patients operated on for complex congenital heart malformations need continuous follow-up. We present a male patient born in 1948 with Fallot's anomaly. A total correction was performed when he was 21 years old. Twenty-eight years after the operation, at routine follow-up, he presented with a significant left-to-right shunt because of a new ventricular septal defect. During the operation we found the original patch to be fractured with a central perforation. The patient received a new patch and has been without any clinical symptoms since.
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