-transparent.png){kind=logo}
Eighty-six patients with Fallot's tetralogy underwent total correction; 80% of them were less than 15 years old. Twenty-five patients were operated upon with primary intracardiac repair, while 61 had undergone some form of palliative heart surgery previously. A patch of woven Dacron was used in the outflow tract reconstruction in 9 cases. The total mortality was 28%, 11 of the 23 deaths were presumed to be caused by low cardiac output, arrhythmia and cardiac arrest. The 62 patients surviving surgery have continuously had a good result and are without disability. The reasons for the relatively high mortality in this series, as well as the controversy concerning the one-stage or the two-stage approach for repair of Fallot's tetralogy, are briefly discussed.
H Rostad, and
S Tjönneland, and
K V Hall
November 1967,
Nihon geka hokan. Archiv fur japanische Chirurgie,
H Rostad, and
S Tjönneland, and
K V Hall
October 1964,
Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie,
H Rostad, and
S Tjönneland, and
K V Hall
April 1965,
Circulation,
H Rostad, and
S Tjönneland, and
K V Hall
January 1973,
Bollettino della Societa italiana di cardiologia,
H Rostad, and
S Tjönneland, and
K V Hall
April 1986,
Zhonghua xin xue guan bing za zhi,
H Rostad, and
S Tjönneland, and
K V Hall
January 1975,
Boletin medico del Hospital Infantil de Mexico,
H Rostad, and
S Tjönneland, and
K V Hall
April 1984,
The Thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon,
H Rostad, and
S Tjönneland, and
K V Hall
April 1978,
British heart journal,
H Rostad, and
S Tjönneland, and
K V Hall
January 1979,
Revista espanola de cardiologia,
H Rostad, and
S Tjönneland, and
K V Hall
January 1981,
Chirurgie; memoires de l'Academie de chirurgie,
