TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe persistent ostium primum atrial septal defect
AU  - FORREST JN
Y1  - 1959/01/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.1959.02070010044002
JO  - A.M.A. Journal of Diseases of Children
SP  - 42
EP  - 47
VL  - 97
IS  - 1
N2  - Recent advances in the treatment of congenital heart disease have been made possible by the concomitant development of more accurate diagnostic techniques. Without this progress in clinical cardiology the ability and skill of the cardiac surgeon would frequently become wasted on useless exploratory operations.The purpose of this article is to illustrate how an anatomical variation of a relatively common and easily reparable congenital heart lesion1,2 may be suspected preoperatively and treatment planned accordingly.In 1956 Blount and his associates published their experience with the ostium primum atrial septal defect and pointed out how this lesion might be recognized clinically.3 Since that time I have seen two cases of ostium primum type of defect confirmed at surgery which were suspected prior to operation on the basis of criteria outlined by Blount.3 A third case of ostium primum defect of a slightly different variety, more properly referred to
SN  - 0096-6916
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1959.02070010044002
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1959.02070010044002
ER  -