Quality of Life 4: Long-term cardiological and psychosocial outcome in adults operated for congenital heart disease in early childhood: a longitudinal cohort-study of 40-53 years of follow-up.
- Conditions
- Grown-up Congenital Heart diseasepatients born with a heart defect1001039410007510
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 342
Patients who underwent cardiac surgery in Rotterdam between 1968 and 1980
becuase of atrial septum defect, ventricular septal defect, tetralogy of
Fallot, transposition of the great arteries and pulmonary stenosis. At the
moment of surgery they were 15 years or younger. Singned informed conseent.
Patients who were older then 15 years at the moment of surgery
Patients who received a palliative shunt
No informed consent
Patients who do not speak the Dutch language
Patients who have renal insufficiency (eGF<30ml/min) for gadolinium contrast in
the cardiac MRI or cardiac CT.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Cardiac outcomes:<br /><br>1. To describe the life expectancy in patients who underwent corrective surgery<br /><br>below the age of 15 years because of a congenital heart defect after 40 to 53<br /><br>years.<br /><br><br /><br>Psychological outcomes:<br /><br>1. To describe the quality of life and psychological functioning in this cohort<br /><br>and to compare it with a healthy control population.</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
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