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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 26.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Surg. 1993 Mar;128(3):337–339. doi: 10.1001/archsurg.1993.01420150093017

Table 3.

Cardiovascular Anomalies as Determinants of Mortality

Type of Cardiovascular
Anomalies		 No. of Patients
With Mild Disease/
No. (%) of Patients
Who Died		 No. of Patients With
Moderate
Disease/No. (%) of
Patients Who Died		 No. of Patients
With Severe
Disease/No. (%)
of Patients Who Died		 No. of Deaths due
to Cardiac
Complications
Peripheral pulmonary artery stenosis
 only		 9/2 (22) 8/5 (62) 0 1*
Peripheral pulmonary artery stenosis and
 other cardiac defects† 		3/1 (33) 1/0 2/2 (100) 2‡
*

This patient had moderate disease.

†

Cardiac defects included pulmonary valve stenosis in four patients; atrial septal defects in three patients; and pulmonary venous stenosis, bicuspid aortic valve, and coarctations of the aorta in one patient each.

‡

Both of these patients had severe disease.