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Furthermore, most follow-up studies have been limited to children or adolescents, whereas many patients have reached adulthood after earlier repair of tetralogy of Fallot. The aim of the present study was to determine the incidence of atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, and other supraventricular arrhythmias in adult patients after intracardiac repair for tetralogy of Fallot and their correlation with surgical and clinical findings.\n          <\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>\n            <jats:italic>Methods and Results<\/jats:italic>\n            The study group consisted of 53 consecutive patients referred to the Thoraxcenter adult congenital heart disease clinic. They underwent repair at a mean age of 9.1 years (range, 0.7 to 55 years). The median age at the time of study was 23.2 years (range, 15 to 57 years; mean age, 26.6 years), and the mean duration of follow-up of 17.5 years (range, 1.4 to 32 years) after surgery. Records were reviewed extensively for evidence of arrhythmias. The follow-up study included routine 12-lead ECG, 24-hour continuous ambulatory monitoring, and echocardiography, and 46 patients underwent exercise testing. Sinus node dysfunction was recorded in 19 patients (36%), of whom 4 required a permanent pacemaker. Atrial fibrillation or flutter was found in 12 patients, and other supraventricular tachycardias were found in 6. The former were more frequently of older age at follow-up. Antiarrhythmic therapy and cardioversion were typically directed at control of atrial (and not ventricular) tachyarrhythmias. Ten patients (19%) showed nonsustained ventricular tachycardia; they were older at initial surgery and older at follow-up and had more intracardiac repairs and longer cardiopulmonary bypass times.\n          <\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>\n            <jats:italic>Conclusions<\/jats:italic>\n            Despite an emphasis on ventricular ectopy in past series, the main sources of morbidity in adult patients after surgical correction of tetralogy of Fallot emanated from atrial arrhythmias, which were present in one third of the patients.\n          <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1161\/01.cir.91.8.2214","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,6,12]],"date-time":"2012-06-12T00:34:42Z","timestamp":1339461282000},"page":"2214-2219","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1161\/crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":214,"title":["Atrial Arrhythmias in Adults After Repair of Tetralogy of Fallot"],"prefix":"10.1161","volume":"91","author":[{"given":"Jolien","family":"Roos-Hesselink","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"From the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine (M.G.P.), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif; and Division of Cardiology, (J.R.-H., J.M., S.S.), Erasmus University, Thoraxcenter, Rotterdam, Netherlands."}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mark G.","family":"Perlroth","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"From the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine (M.G.P.), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif; and Division of Cardiology, (J.R.-H., J.M., S.S.), Erasmus University, Thoraxcenter, Rotterdam, Netherlands."}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jacky","family":"McGhie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"From the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine (M.G.P.), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif; and Division of Cardiology, (J.R.-H., J.M., S.S.), Erasmus University, Thoraxcenter, Rotterdam, Netherlands."}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Silja","family":"Spitaels","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"From the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine (M.G.P.), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif; and Division of Cardiology, (J.R.-H., J.M., S.S.), Erasmus University, Thoraxcenter, Rotterdam, Netherlands."}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"276","reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0002-9149(80)90359-8"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0735-1097(85)80279-5"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_3_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/S1047951100000342"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_4_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0002-9149(90)91047-A"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_5_2","unstructured":"Rosing DR Borer JS Kent KM Maron BJ Seides SF Morrow AG Epstein SE. 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