Key result
Conservative monitoring maintains asymptomatic status in small residual VSD following Tetralogy of Fallot repair.
Why the study?
Residual ventricular septal defect after surgical repair for Tetralogy of Fallot can occasionally be hemodynamically important requiring re-intervention, but its management and outcomes need description.
Case Report (n=1)
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A residual ventricular septal defect after surgical repair of Tetralogy of Fallot can become hemodynamically insignificant with observation alone.
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May support conservative follow-up for small residual VSD post-TOF repair; leaves open need for prospective data on reintervention thresholds.
Residual Ventricular septal defect after surgical repair for Tetralogy of fallot(TOF) can occasionally be heamodynamically important requiring re-intervention.Closed observation and followup make this defect heamodynamically insignificant, required no medication and no endocarditis.We describe one patient having residual defect after surgical repair of TOF. Keywords TOF; Residual VSD DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/cardio.v3i2.9196 Cardiovasc. J. 2011; 3(2): 233-234
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Hassan et al. (1970) conducted a case report in Tetralogy of Fallot with residual ventricular septal defect (n=1). Surgical repair of Tetralogy of Fallot was evaluated on Hemodynamic significance and clinical status of residual VSD. A 4 mm residual ventricular septal defect following surgical repair of Tetralogy of Fallot in a 7-year-old boy remained hemodynamically insignificant and asymptomatic at 3 months follow-up.
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