Population
88 patients with transposition of the great arteries who underwent a Mustard operation
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
mean 20.9 +/- 10.0 years
Authors
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May warrant intensified surveillance for Mustard survivors with VSD; leaves open applicability to contemporary atrial switch cohorts.
Long-term survivors of the Mustard operation maintain good functional status but face frequent reoperations for baffle complications, and a concomitant ventricular septal defect increases the risk of late death.
Hörer et al. (2007) studied this question.
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