CONGENITAL AORTIC SEPTAL DEFECT

Congenital Aortopulmonary Septal Defect

T HE MANAGEMENT of patients with congenital communications between the ascending aorta and the main pulmonary artery is a challenging problem, not only in the establishment of the correct diagnosis preoperatively, but in subsequent surgical treatment as well. Although often described as a rare malformation, aortopulmonary septal defect will probably be encountered in any large group of patients...

Congenital syphilis and ventricular septal defect.

A 6600 g male infant, delivered vaginally at 38 weeks of gestation with a birth weight of 3500 g, was found to have moderate hepatomegaly, mild ascites, lower limbs edema, oliguria, hyponatremia, leukocytosis (24.8 10 cellsmm ) and severe anemia (5 g dl ) without apparent cause at 2 months and 17 days after birth. The mother had no antenatal care but at birth he was apparently healthy until day...

Surgical closure of an aortic septal defect.

Ventricular septal defect associated with aortic insufficiency.

Thirty-five consecutive patients with ventricular septal defect (VSD) associated with aortic insufficiency (AI) who underwent corrective surgery are presented. There were seven operative and three late deaths among the patients operated upon before 1968. No death, however, was encountered among the most recent 18 consecutive patients. The VSD was closed directly in 14 patients and with a Teflon...

Ventricular Septal Defect with Aortic Valvular Incompetence

V ENTRICULIAR septal defect is a relatively common congenital cardiac defect. Rarely, however, is ventricular septal defect associated with major degrees of aortic valvular incompetence. When these two conditions do coexist, they are usually combined in a characteristic malformation. The purpose of this paper is to review our experience with the surgical management of this combination of defect...