Lionel M. Bargeron

TL;DR: hypertrophy of the ventricular main chamber was a risk factor for death in both the early and late phases of hazard, which explained in part the lesser risk of the Fontan operation in patients with tricuspid atresia.

TL;DR: The anatomic and functional characteristics of 310 consecutive patients undergoing repair of atrioventricular (AV) septal defects were studied and it is found that actuarial survival at 12 1/2 years postoperatively is 95% when preoperative AV valve incompetence is absent or mild and 88% when it is more severe (Grade 3, 4, or 5).

TL;DR: During the 13 year period from January 1967 to July 1980, the hospital mortality rate for open intracardiac operations in infants in the first 3 months of life was 43 percent, higher than the 22 percent mortality rates for closed operations in the same age group.

TL;DR: This work reports successful surgical repair in 2 patients with associated large ventricular septal defects and pulmonary stenosis, in which the defect was posterior and in relation to the pulmonary artery which slightly overrode it.

TL;DR: Between 1967 and July 1982, 1103 operations were performed for the tetralogy of Fallot of all types with 116 hospital deaths with 116 (10.5%) hospital deaths occurred in the 836 patients undergoing repair.