Surgical Results
The overall early mortality for patients undergoing repair of congenital
heart diseases was 3.4%. The causes of mortality in the early
postoperative period were congenital heart diseases in two patients, and
cerebrovascular accident in one patient. The modalities used after
establishing diagnosis were not clearly described in two-thirds of the
patients. These investigations mostly dealt with multimodality imaging
studies and necropsy data.7,18,23,39,40,63,64,66 There
is documentation of the anomalous vein in 22 patients dying of diverse
causes, namely congenital heart diseases, cerebrovascular accidents and
malignancies (Table E1).7,18,37,39-43,64,66