Pediheart Podcast #282: Very Long Term Follow-Up After ASD Surgical Repair
Pediheart: Pediatric Cardiology Today
English - January 19, 2024 06:00 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsScience Health & Fitness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this week's episode we review a recent Dutch study on 50 year follow-up of patients who had ASD repaired at an average age of 7.5 years. How do these patients compare to their middle aged counterparts who did not have congenital heart surgery? Why might the RA or RV be enlarged in these patients, decades after successful ASD closure? How common are arrhythmias seen in this cohort? How common is pulmonary hypertension seen? These are amongst the questions reviewed this week with the work's first author, Dr. Robert Martijn Kauling.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2023.131616