Progress in Late Results Among Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Patients

Surgical treatment of congenital cardiac defects in Finland started >60 years ago. We analyzed the survival of all the pediatric cardiac surgery patients operated on before 2010.Data were obtained retrospectively from a pediatric cardiac surgery database. Patient status was received from the Finnish Population Registry. Survival was determined with the Kaplan-Meier method, and the survival rate was compared with a sex- and age-matched general...