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Figure 3 Survival of Patients After Their First Operation

Division is by the decade during which the patient underwent the first surgery. The dotted green line in the figures for all and for PDA patients represents the survival of the 1980s, when only CHD-related deaths were included in the analysis. Follow-up started from the patient’s first operation. In VSD, TOF, and TGA figures, the percentages marked as "cor" represent the proportion of patients whose first operation has been corrective. *p = significance of difference when compared with 1980s. Patient died 15 years after closure of PDA; VSD was not surgically corrected. **Patient emigrated. Abbreviations as in Figures 1 and 2.