Survival and Freedom From Reinterventions in Patients With Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot: Up to 42‐Year Follow‐Up of 917 Patients

Abstract

Background To evaluate long‐term outcome of tetralogy of Fallot repair analyzing an unbiased country‐wide surgically treated population with tetralogy of Fallot. Methods and Results Retrospective analysis of consecutive patients aged 90% at 30 years. Each reintervention significantly incrementally increased the risk of mortality. Type of initial repair predicted the need for specific surgical or catheter reinterventions.

Keywords

• outcome
• pulmonary valve replacement
• surgical repair
• tetralogy of Fallot