this study was conducted to assess the incidence of abnormalities of ventricular depolarization (late potentials) in children with sinus rhythm after open heart surgery and their relation to spontaneous ventricular tachycardia. open heart surgery, particularly operations involving ventriculotomy, may predispose patients to the development of ventricular tachycardia (vt) or ventricular fibrillat...

background and objective: the aim of this study was to analyze our indications, surgical procedures, and clinical outcomes of patients undergoing reoperation after surgical correction of tetralogy of fallot (tof). methods: thirty seven consecutive patients who underwent reoperation late after intra-cardiac repair of tof within a period of 10 years were assessed. results: the most common indicat...

The diagnosis of congenital heart disease de novo in adults is now uncommon. Increasing numbers of children with congenital heart disease are surviving to adulthood, leading to the development of adult congenital heart disease as a distinct subspecialty. Nevertheless, adults with congenital heart disease still present to general cardiologists—as an initial presentation, for geographical or logi...

Since Robert Gross inaugurated pediatric cardiac surgery in 1938 and since the advent of open-heart surgery on cardiopulmonary bypass in the 1950s, mortality from congenital heart disease has plummeted. However, many of the more complex forms of congenital heart disease still cannot be physiologically corrected; rather, patients are surgically palliated, permitting survival but leaving signific...