Publications by authors named "F E Deuvaert"
Unlabelled: BACKGROUND; Our aim was to determine the incidence, risk factors and outcome of early postoperative arrhythmias in children with delayed treatment of severe congenital heart disease.
Methods: A prospective study was conducted in 141 consecutive children with delayed referral from emerging countries, who underwent open-heart surgery.
Results: Sinus node dysfunction was noted in 5 cases.
The number of adults with congenital cardiac disease continues to increase, and adult patients are now more numerous than paediatric patients. We sought to identify risk factors for perioperative death and report our results with surgical management of adult patients with congenital cardiac disease. We retrospectively analysed in-hospital data for 244 consecutive adult patients who underwent surgical treatment of congenital cardiac disease in our centre between January, 1998 and December, 2007.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAccurate ventricular septal defect patch sizing and tailoring remain challenging in many surgical procedures. Surgical exposure frequently limits complete visualization of the ventricular septal defect. Moreover, examination of the heart cavity under cardioplegic arrest may lead to skewed appreciation of the ventricular septal defect caliber and shape.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 78-year-old patient with ochronosis has developed symptomatic aortic stenosis. He has undergone an aortic valve replacement that was highly complicated by a severe aortic calcification. The right coronary artery was sacrificed and bypassed in order to control a massive aortic root haemorrhage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Off-pump surgery has become a valuable alternative if a small number of distal anastomoses is required. The aim of the present study was to test the hypothesis that outcome is not altered in multiple distal anastomoses.
Material And Methods: During a 4 year period, 350 patients were operated off-pump.