TY - JOUR
T1 - Adult survivors of moderate and great complexity congenital heart disease undergoing general surgery procedures
T2 - How do they fare?
AU - Farr, Bethany J.
AU - Castillo-Angeles, Manuel
AU - Okafor, Barbara
AU - Patel, Nikita
AU - Ramsis, Ramsis
AU - Aldweib, Nael
AU - Opotowsky, Alexander R.
AU - Nehra, Deepika
AU - Rice-Townsend, Samuel E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021
PY - 2022/5
Y1 - 2022/5
N2 - Background: Patients with complex congenital heart disease (CHD) are now commonly surviving well into adulthood. We describe the clinical characteristics and outcomes for a cohort of adult patients with moderate and great complexity CHD undergoing general surgery procedures. Methods: The electronic records of two tertiary centers were queried to identify adult patients with moderate and great complexity CHD who underwent a general surgery procedure between 2007 and 2017. Results: 118 adult patients were included in the analysis. The mean age was 36 ± 17 years and 49.2% were male. The most common cardiac diagnoses were pulmonary valve anomaly (24.6%), tetralogy of Fallot (18.6%), coarctation of the aorta (15.3%) and common/single ventricle (10.2%). The most common general surgery procedures performed were cholecystectomy (23.7%), herniorrhaphy (23.7%) and colorectal resection (9.3%). In-hospital mortality and morbidity were 2.5% and 11.9%, respectively. Conclusion: Adults survivors of moderate and great complexity CHD undergoing common general surgery procedures in this study experienced excellent in-hospital outcomes.
AB - Background: Patients with complex congenital heart disease (CHD) are now commonly surviving well into adulthood. We describe the clinical characteristics and outcomes for a cohort of adult patients with moderate and great complexity CHD undergoing general surgery procedures. Methods: The electronic records of two tertiary centers were queried to identify adult patients with moderate and great complexity CHD who underwent a general surgery procedure between 2007 and 2017. Results: 118 adult patients were included in the analysis. The mean age was 36 ± 17 years and 49.2% were male. The most common cardiac diagnoses were pulmonary valve anomaly (24.6%), tetralogy of Fallot (18.6%), coarctation of the aorta (15.3%) and common/single ventricle (10.2%). The most common general surgery procedures performed were cholecystectomy (23.7%), herniorrhaphy (23.7%) and colorectal resection (9.3%). In-hospital mortality and morbidity were 2.5% and 11.9%, respectively. Conclusion: Adults survivors of moderate and great complexity CHD undergoing common general surgery procedures in this study experienced excellent in-hospital outcomes.
KW - Acute care surgery
KW - Adult
KW - Congenital heart disease
KW - General surgery
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U2 - 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2021.08.021
DO - 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2021.08.021
M3 - Article
C2 - 34474916
AN - SCOPUS:85114011678
SN - 0002-9610
VL - 223
SP - 841
EP - 845
JO - American journal of surgery
JF - American journal of surgery
IS - 5
ER -