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  • Title: [Autoptic findings and anatomo-clinical correlations in subjects who died after repair of tetralogy of Fallot (author's transl)].
    Author: Alfieri O, Kuruvilla S, Di Benedetto G, Locatelli G, Tiraboschi R, Villani M, Parenzan L, Carbonera Giani P.
    Journal: G Ital Cardiol; 1979; 9(8):845-50. PubMed ID: 549798.
    Abstract:
    The postoperative course and the post-mortem findings of a group of 30 patients who died after repair of tetralogy of Fallot were reviewed. A residual ventricular septal defect was the most common finding at the autopsy (13 patients = 43%) while a severe residual obstruction to the right ventricular outflow was found in 5 patients (17%), miscellaneous lesions in 3 (10%) and no intracardiac defects in 9 (30%). Since a residual anatomic defect is frequently responsible for the hospital mortality, prompts hemodynamic evaluation and reoperation is recommended when the postoperative course is deteriorating.
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