Korean Circ J.  2020 Aug;50(8):677-690. [e-mail].

Recent Surgical Outcomes ofCongenital Heart Disease according toKorea Heart Foundation Data

• Shin HJ
• Park YH
• Cho BK

• KMID: 2505121
• DOI: http://doi.org/[e-mail]

Abstract

Background and Objectives
This study presents an update of the surgical outcomes ofcongenital heart disease (CHD) according to Korea Heart Foundation (KHF) data.
Methods
We investigated the data of the 7,305 patients who were economically supportedby KHF in 2000–2014. Of them, we analyzed surgical outcomes of the 6,599 patients whounderwent CHD surgery.
Results
The median patient age was 1.9 years (range, 0–71.5 years). Of the 6,599 patients,5,616 (85.1%) underwent biventricular repair and 983 (14.9%) underwent palliativeprocedures. The mean Basic Aristotle Score was 6.6±2.2. A complex procedure (definedas Basic Aristotle Score above 6) was performed in 3,368 patients (51.0%). The earlymortality rate was 3.8%, while the late mortality rate was 1.8%. Previous reports of the KHF(1984–1999) showed that the early surgical and late mortality rates were 8.6%, and 5.3%,respectively. There were 491 neonates (7.4%); among them, the early mortality rate was 12.2%and late mortality rate was 3.7%. There were 2,617 infants (40.0%); among them, the earlymortality rate was 6.0% and the late mortality rate was 2.3%. A total of 591 patients from 30countries were helped by the KHF.
Conclusions
More neonatal surgeries (491 vs. 74 patients) were performed than those inthe past (1984–1999). The surgical outcomes were much better than before. Our surgicaloutcomes revealed that the Republic of Korea has been transformed from a country receivinghelp to a country that helps other low socioeconomic status countries.

Keyword

Heart defects, congenital; Treatment outcomes

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  Figure 1 Number of patients by diagnosis and surgery type.AHD = adult heart disease; CHD = congenital heart disease.

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