Survival of patients with congenital ventricular septal defect.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

The long-term survival of patients with isolated congenital ventricular septal defect (VSD) is not well described. The aim of this study was to describe the survival of a national cohort of patients with VSD compared with the general population.

Methods and results

Using Danish nationwide medical registries, all patients diagnosed with congenital VSD (n = 9,136) in the period 1977-2018 were included. Patients with chromosomal abnormalities and concomitant congenital cardiac malformations other than atrial septal defect were excluded. Each patient was matched by birthyear and sex with ten controls from the general Danish population. Kaplan-Meier survival function and Cox proportional hazard regression were used to compute survival and mortality risk. Median follow-up was

SUBMITTER: Eckerstrom F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9805405 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature