AIM OF STUDY: Retrospective analysis of surgical correction of TAPVD performed between January 1992 and March 2008.METHODS: Review of patients' medical records. Patients' preoperative, operative as well as postoperative data were collated and analyzed using JMP statistical program version 5.RESULTS: A total of 51 patients with total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage underwent surgery at our center during a period of over seventeen years. Actuarial survival was 90.2%. Early postoperative death was recorded in 4 patients (7.8%) as against one late postoperative death. The only statistically significant risk factor for death was the time of surgical repair. Patients undergoing the repair before 1997 were more likely to die than those operated on after this period, p=0.006. Patients' survival following the surgical correction prior to the year 1997 was 63.63% as opposed to 97.5% for the period between 1997 and 2008. Freedom from surgical re-intervention over the period of follow-up was 92%. The obstructive type of TAPVD was associated with longer ICU stay and higher postoperative complications, p=0.003.CONCLUSION: We have recorded a significant improvement in patients' survival following surgery for total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage in the last decade. This can be attributed to a number of new measures both surgical and medical employed in the treatment of our patients (Tab. 3, Fig. 7, Ref. 17). Full Text (Free, PDF) www.bmj.sk.
Female Heart Defects, Congenital