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Impact of congenital heart surgery on quality of life in children and adolescents with surgically corrected Ventricular Septal Defect, Tetralogy of Fallot, and Transposition of the Great Arteries.

Line Marie HolstJonas B KronborgLars IdornJesper V BjerreNiels VejlstrupKlaus JuulHanne B Ravn
Published in: Cardiology in the young (2019)
Children and adolescents with surgically corrected CHD show losses in quality of life in total and school scores compared to healthy controls. The tetralogy of Fallot group was the only CHD group that had significantly lower physical score than the controls.
Keyphrases
  • physical activity
  • mental health
  • minimally invasive
  • heart failure
  • coronary artery bypass
  • left ventricular
  • surgical site infection
  • catheter ablation
  • atrial fibrillation
  • percutaneous coronary intervention