Causes of death after interventions
| Pulmonary venous drainage | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | Causes | Obstructed anomalous | Non-obstructed anomalous | Normal | Overall mortality (%) | |
| CP, cavopulmonary; PA, pulmonary arterial; PV, pulmonary venous; S-P, systemic pulmonary | ||||||
| S-P shunt (n=53) | Early death | 1 | 23 | |||
| Late deaths | ||||||
| Infection: | Pneumonia | 2 | ||||
| Brain abscess | 1 | |||||
| Sepsis | 2 | |||||
| Severe heart failure | 1 | |||||
| Sudden death (3/5 had history of cardiac arrhythmia) | 2 | 3 | ||||
| PV repair (n=8) | Early death | 1 | 1 | 75 | ||
| Late deaths | ||||||
| Infection: | Bronchiolitis | 1 | ||||
| Peritonitis | 1 | |||||
| Sepsis | 1 | |||||
| Sudden death (while on antiarrhythmic medications) | 1 | |||||
| CP shunt (n=13) | Early death | 1 | 23 | |||
| Late deaths | ||||||
| Aspiration of milk | 1 | |||||
| Supraventricular tachycardia | 1 | |||||
| Fontan (n=19) | Early deaths | 37 | ||||
| Failure to wean off cardiopulmonary bypass | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Multiorgan failure | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Late deaths | ||||||
| Dysfunction of prosthetic atrioventricular valve | 1 | |||||
| Sudden death (history of junctional rhythm postoperation) | 1 | |||||
| PA banding (n=3) | Early death | 1 | 67 | |||
| Late death | ||||||
| Sepsis | 1 | |||||
| Pacemaker insertion (n=1) | Pneumonia | 1 | ||||