Abstract

GONZALEZ MOREJON, Adel Eladio; SELMAN-HOUSSEIN SOSA, Eugenio  and  SERRANO RICARDO, Giselle. Pulmonary atresia with intact interventricular septum- the clinical relevance of the palliative treatment in our context. Rev Cubana Pediatr [online]. 2013, vol.85, n.2, pp.149-162. ISSN 0034-7531.

Introduction: pulmonary atresia with intact interventricular septum is a complex congenital cardiopathy at the time of making therapeutic decisions in each case; this is the reason why the successful management of this disease is a problem to be solved by the pediatric cardiology. Objective: to determine the existing level of clinical relevance of palliative therapies applied in our context. Methods: evaluation of 43 children with confirmed diagnosis of the disease, who had been referred to "William Soler" pediatric cardiological center and had undergone initial palliative treatment in the period of January 1992 through November, 2011. With the objective of determining the clinical relevance of this procedure, an effectiveness study including the analysis of incidence/prevalence of well-defined events (early mortality and main lethality causes) in each therapeutic variant used in patients was conducted. Results: performance of surgical fistula associated with atrioseptostomy showed high indexes of clinical relevance. Conclusions: there were low incidences and prevalence indexes of early mortality and also reduced occurrence of respiratory failures as lethal complication from this combined procedure, compared with the rest of the therapeutic modalities under study.

Keywords : pulmonary atresia; clinical relevance; incidence; prevalence.

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