Maryanne Caruana1, Victor Grech2
Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.12, No.5, pp. 588-595, 2017, DOI: 10.1111/chd.12488
Abstract Objectives: To investigate survival and freedom from reintervention after aortic coarctation repair
in Maltese patients and to compare cardiovascular mortality in coarctation repair survivors with
that in the general population.
Design: All 72 aortic coarctation patients with any type of repair, born by end-1997 and logged in
the local database were included. Trends in timing and type of repair were determined by comparing patients born before and after 1985. Kaplan-Meier analyses of survival and reintervention-free
survival were performed on the 59 repair survivors with complete follow-up data (mean follow-up
26.13 ± 9.62 (range 1.05–44.55 years). Cardiovascular mortality in repair survivors… More >
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