In developing countries, surgical treatment of adult congenital cardiac disease is effective and safe, with an overall survival rate of 96.3% at 60 months. Due to high mortality rate, palliative surgery of a non-atrial septal defect patient is recommended to be discontinued. The independent predictor of mortality was post-operative New York Heart Association functional class III-IV.
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