Surgical Outcomes in Pediatric Patients With Coarctation and VSD

Stopped early

Conditions studied: Diagnosis of Coarctation of the Aorta and VSD, Surgical Repair at CHOA, Between January 1, 2002 and December 31, 2005

In brief

Recently, a paper was published that compared outcomes of patients requiring repair of aortic coarctation and ventricular septal defect. Some surgeons opt to repair both defects in one surgery while other surgeons do the repair in two separate operations. Recently at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, we have adopted the practice of correcting both defects during the same operation but through two separate incisions (one on the chest and the other through the ribs on the side. This reduces the amount of time the patient is on the heart-lung bypass machine during surgery. This study is a review of patient charts to compare outcomes of patients who have had surgery to repair their coarctation and VSD during 2002 through 2005.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT00327795
Run by
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
People needed
32
Starts
2006-01-01
Expected to finish
2007-11-01
Last updated by the study team
2012-03-16

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

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Where it is running

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