Villani M, Crupi G, Locatelli G, Tiraboschi R, Vanini V, Parenzan L
Herz. 1979 Apr;4(2):256-61.
Over a period of ten years 110 patients with univentricular heart, including cases with tricuspid atresia, received palliation. The overall hospital mortality was 14.5%. Late mortality during a mean follow-up period of two years, was 6%. A group of patients with univentricular heart ("complex" group: 21 cases) had numerous and significant associated anomalies which affected the surgical results (16 survivors). Eight patients were discovered to have univentricular heart only at open heart surgery (5 survivors). In the remaining patients hospital mortality was 7.4% (6/81). As compared with the natural history these results indicate that palliative surgery is still an effective type of treatment for these two severe cardiac malformations.
在十年期间，110例单心室心脏患者（包括三尖瓣闭锁病例）接受了姑息治疗。总体医院死亡率为14.5%。在平均两年的随访期内，晚期死亡率为6%。一组单心室心脏患者（“复杂”组：21例）有许多严重的相关异常，影响了手术结果（16例存活）。8例患者仅在心脏直视手术时才被发现患有单心室心脏（5例存活）。其余患者的医院死亡率为7.4%（6/81）。与自然病程相比，这些结果表明姑息手术仍然是治疗这两种严重心脏畸形的一种有效治疗方式。
