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14 kwi 2024 · Surgical repair of VSDs offers several benefits, including a reduced risk of endocarditis, potential improvement in PAH, and overall survival. In the absence of PAH, the operative mortality rate is approximately 1%.
When one examines Fontan procedures in patients with unbalanced AVSDs, the mortality rates (17 to 31.7%) were higher 144, 145 and actuarial survival rates (66.5% at 5 years and 64.4% at 15 years) were lower 146 and there were more surgical and catheter re-interventions (51.9%) 145.
18 cze 2024 · Abstract. Ventricular septal defects are a rare complication after acute myocardial infarction with a mortality close to 100% if left untreated.
7 cze 2024 · Ventricular septal defects (VSDs) are defects in the interventricular septum that allow shunting of blood between the left and right ventricles. Usually congenital, but rarely acquired after myocardial infarction or trauma. May be associated with other congenital defects such as tetralogy of Fallot.
9 lis 2021 · Moderate: Survival rates for people with unrepaired moderate VSDs are a little bit lower, with about 86% of them surviving at least 25 years after diagnosis. Large: Survival rates for people with a large unrepaired VSD are much lower. Only about 61% of these individuals are still alive 25 years after their diagnosis.
VSDs were classified according to the Society of Thoracic Surgeons as type 2 (membranous, 72%) or type 1 (subarterial, 26%). Aortic regurgitation (AR) (28%), left ventricular dilation (20%), and pulmonary hypertension (20%) were the most common indications for closure.
14 mar 2022 · Ventricular septal defect (VSD) is one of the most common congenital heart defects (second only to bicuspid aortic valve) at birth, but accounts for only 10 percent of congenital heart defects in adults because many close spontaneously [1,2].
