Abstract
Twenty-five infants under 1 year of age (mean weight 3.4 kg) underwent repair of coarctation of the aorta between the years 1965 and 1982. Three patients had coarctation only, three had coarctation with patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), and 19 had associated intracardiac anomalies. Eleven patients underwent resection of the aorta and end-to-end anastomosis. Eight had subclavian flap arterioplasty, five had patch graft arterioplasty, and one had subclavian-to-aortic anastomosis. Additional procedures were performed on seven patients: banding of the pulmonary artery on one, repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage on one, mitral valve replacement on one, aortic valvotomy on one, and aortic valvotomy plus pulmonary artery banding on one. Twenty-one survived the operation. All patients who died had associated intracardiac anomalies.
The 21 survivors have been followed from 3 months to 13 years, with three late deaths that were associated with intracardiac anomalies. Five of the survivors underwent additional second operations: one had repair of the re-coarctation, one had replacement of the prosthetic mitral valve, one had aortic valvotomy, and two had pulmonary artery debanding and closure of a ventricular septal defect. Two of the 18 surviving patients have mild hypertension associated with a residual gradient. The others are in good health.
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