Late sudden death after repair of tetralogy of Fallot: a clinicopathologic study.
- 1 March 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 67 (3), 626-631
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.67.3.626
Abstract
Retrospective analysis was performed to determine the likely cause of death in six patients who died suddenly 1-9 years after repair of tetralogy of Fallot. The integrity of the atrioventricular conduction system and myocardium was examined in three hearts at necropsy. Two of three patients who complained of palpitation or syncope had frequent premature ventricular complexes on routine ECGs. All the patients had complete right bundle branch block and one had left-axis deviation after repair. Postoperative cardiac catheterization (four patients) showed no residual ventricular septal defects, but right ventricular pressure was elevated in all. At necropsy, the atrioventricular conduction tissue was related to the margin of perimembranous ventricular septal defect in two patients, but was well posterior in one patient with an infundibular muscular defect. Histologic examination showed that in all cases the atrioventricular node, atrioventricular bundle and left bundle branch were undamaged. There was, howeve...This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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