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

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 <18 years who underwent tetralogy of Fallot repair at a single nationwide pediatric cardiac center. Death from any cause and need for surgical or catheter reintervention were the study end points.

Long-Term Survival and Freedom From Coronary Artery Reintervention After Arterial Switch Operation for Transposition of the Great Arteries: A Population-Based Nationwide Study.

Background The aim of this study was to evaluate long-term survival and freedom from coronary artery reintervention after the arterial switch operation (ASO). Methods and Results This single-center nationwide retrospective study included consecutive children who underwent ASO between 1990 and 2016 (n=605). Long-term outcomes were obtained by cross-mapping individual data with the National Death Registry and the National Registry of Cardiovascular Interventions for adults.

[Czech paediatric cardiac surgery - history and presence].

The beginnings of the Paediatric Cardiac Surgery in the Czech Republic date back to the period immediately after the end of World War II. Its protagonists were Prof. Emerich Polák from the Surgical Clinic in Prague, Vinohrady, Prof.

Aggressive tumoral calcinosis in an infant thoracotomy scar.

The authors report a case of tumoral calcinosis (TC) in a six-month-old infant, which developed within the thoracotomy scar from previous aortic coarctation repair. After initial resection of the lesion, the child returned with a large mass of TC restricting movement of the left shoulder. Repeated total resection was successful with no recurrence in 12 months' follow-up.

Improved results after the primary repair of interrupted aortic arch: impact of a new management protocol with isolated cerebral perfusion.

Objective: The aim of this retrospective study was to analyse results and risk factors of death after the repair of the interrupted aortic arch, and to compare results obtained with the use of deep hypothermic circulatory arrest versus isolated cerebral perfusion.

Methods: The primary repair of the interrupted aortic arch and associated heart lesions was performed in 50 consecutive patients. The median age was 5 days and the mean weight was 3.

Long-term results after correction of persistent truncus arteriosus in 83 patients.

Objective: This study aims to analyse long-term results after correction of truncus arteriosus in all patients operated in one institution over 28 years.

Methods: Between 1981 and 2009, 83 patients, median age 54 days, underwent repair of truncus arteriosus. Interrupted aortic arch was present in 14 (17%), severe truncal valve insufficiency in 10 (12%) and non-confluent pulmonary arteries in five (6%) patients.

Repair of persistent truncus arteriosus with interrupted aortic arch.

Objective: The aim of our study was to analyse experience with repair of truncus arteriosus with interrupted aortic arch.

Methods: Between 1993 and 2004, eight consecutive patients underwent repair of truncus arteriosus with interrupted aortic arch. The median age was 6.

Cardiac resynchronization therapy: a novel adjunct to the treatment and prevention of systemic right ventricular failure.

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the technical feasibility and hemodynamic benefit of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in patients with systemic right ventricle (RV).

Background: Patients with a systemic RV are at high risk of developing heart failure. Cardiac resynchronization therapy may improve RV function in those with electromechanical dyssynchrony.