Objective: The real burden of (congenital heart defects [CHD]) and the improvement after surgical correction or palliation is both reflected in the quality of life (QoL). There are few studies in Latin-America that evaluate QoL in the CHD population. The purpose of this study was to measure the QoL after corrective or palliative surgery for CHD. Materials and methods: An observational, cross-sectional, and comparative study was carried out at the Miguel Hidalgo Centennial Hospital. Patients from 8 to 18 years old who underwent surgery for CHD were included during a period of 8 months. A total of 40 patients were included, together with a group of 80 healthy controls. From all participants, a KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaire was taken. A comparative analysis of the results was performed. Results: Overall, patients with cardiac surgery had better QoL indexes than healthy controls (p < 0.0001). The difference was greatest in moods and emotions, autonomy, and parent relations. Conclusions: Self-perception of QoL in post-operative patients for congenital heart disease is similar and in certain dimensions higher than the healthy population, possibly due to socioeconomic differences, parental care, and styles of coping with their disease. Higher complexity studies that include psychosocial variables and parental perception are required, and a better understanding of the QoL determinants will improve the attention provided to the patient and their families.
La interrupción del arco aórtico se define por la falta de continuidad anatómica entre la aorta ascendente y la descendente, considerándose una forma extrema de coartación. Generalmente se encuentra asociada con otras anomalías cardíacas, como puede ser el ventrículo derecho de doble salida. El avance tecnológico en cardio-TC ha permitido en los últimos años una gran precisión diagnóstica con mínimo riesgo para el paciente. Se presenta el caso de un neonato de 4 días de vida con diagnóstico de coartación aórtica compleja estudiado mediante cardio-TC junto con una breve revisión bibliográfica del tema.
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