The current trends of mortality following congenital heart surgery: the Japan Congenital Cardiovascular Surgery Database

Abstract

The investigation of JCCVSD revealed that about a half of mortalities occurred later than 30 days; hence 90-day and in-hospital mortality would be a good discriminator that accurately represented the current situation of mortality after congenital heart surgery. Mortalities long after the operation due to post-cardiotomy heart failure without any other lethal complications were still not rare.