Complete atrioventricular septal defect with tetralogy of Fallot: diagnosis and management.

Complete atrioventricular septal defect with tetralogy of Fallot: diagnosis and management.

OBJECTIVE To report recent experience of patients with complete atrioventricular septal defect and tetralogy of Fallot, with emphasis on anatomical features, diagnosis, and management. DESIGN Case notes were reviewed and patients were assessed at follow up by clinical examination and cross sectional and Doppler echocardiography. SETTING Tertiary cardiothoracic referral centre. PATIENTS Be...

Improvement of surgical outcomes of complete atrioventricular septal defect with Tetralogy of Fallot

Methods Between 1981 and 2013, 23 patients with CAVSD/TOF (8 males, median age at operation: 3.0 year old; median weight at operation: 12.0 kg) underwent the definitive surgery: 14 patients before 1995 and 9 patients after 1996. Down syndrome was associated in 17 (74%) patients. The unilateral or bilateral systemic to pulmonary (SP) shunt was placed in 17 (74%) patients, and the timing of the i...

Atrioventricular septal defect with tetralogy of Fallot in patient with Down's syndrome.

Prenatal diagnosis of complete atrioventricular septal defect with truncus arteriosus.

Truncus arteriosus (TA) is a rare cardiac anomaly constituting less than 1% of all congenital heart defects. Its association with complete atrioventricular septal defect (AVSD) is extremely unusual and only 12 cases diagnosed postnatally or postmortem have been reported so far. We describe the first case of truncus arteriosus with AVSD to be diagnosed prenatally by fetal echocardiography.

Tetralogy of Fallot and pulmonary atresia/ventricular septal defect.

Surgical repair of tetralogy of Fallot is associated with excellent results. Long-term complications include arrhythmias, sudden death, and right ventricular aneurysm formation. Reoperation is necessary in approximately 5% of patients for residual ventricular septal defect, pulmonary regurgitation, or pulmonary stenosis. Pulmonary atresia/ventricular septal defect is a more complex situation, a...