Morbidity after paediatric cardiac surgery assessed with usage of medicines: a population-based registry study.

Objective: To examine the overall morbidity of patients who underwent surgery for congenital cardiac defect during childhood.

Background: A congenital cardiac defect treated with surgery is seldom totally cured. The incidence of residua, sequelae, and comorbidity is quite high.

Causes of late deaths after pediatric cardiac surgery: a population-based study.

Objectives: We examined the causes and modes of late death after pediatric cardiac surgery.

Background: The late mortality of patients operated on for congenital heart defect (CHD) is comprehensively unexamined. In this study, the causes of death were examined to obtain further knowledge of the morbidity of the patients.

Late results and quality of life after pediatric cardiac surgery in Finland: a population-based study of 6,461 patients with follow-up extending up to 45 years.

This population-based study characterizes the history and progress of pediatric cardiac surgery in Finland. For the first time in the literature, all defects and procedures are included in an outcome study, reflecting the true effectiveness of operative treatment. All the patients operated on since the beginning of pediatric cardiac surgery in Finland in 1953 and through the end of 1989 were included in this population-based, long-term outcome study.