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Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is the most common form of cyanotic congenital heart disease, especially in children and adolescents. Corrective surgery may be performed in most patients with satisfactory clinical and hemodynamic results[1]. From April 1973 to October 1982, 603 operations on 597 patients for tetralogy of Fallot were performed in our hospital. The operative procedures included infundibular resection and/or pulmonary valvotomy and closure of ventricular septal defect in 334 cases, repair of VSD with additional right ventricular outflow patch in 256 cases, repair of VSD with additional valved conduit graft between the right ventricle and pulmonary artery in 7 cases and reoperations for closure of residual ventricular septal defects in 6 cases. The operative mortality rate was 3.69% and the late mortality rate was 2.35%. Of the 450 patients with intracardiac pressures measured before closing the chest, 423 (94.0%) had RV/LV systolic pressure ratio of less than 0.75, which is considered to be satisfactory hemodynamically.
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Zengwei, W., Chengjian, F., Wuyang, Q. (1986). Surgical Treatment of Tetralogy of Fallot in Children and Adolescents. In: Wu, Y., Peters, R.M. (eds) International Practice in Cardiothoracic Surgery. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4259-2_57
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