Abstract
Introduction Cerebrovascular accidents have long been recognized as a complication of congenital heart disease and are mentioned by Batten, 1 White, 2 Abbott, 3 Ford, 4 and others. Berthrong and Sabiston 5 reported on cerebral lesions in 162 cases of congenital heart disease. Taussig 6 emphasized their occurrence in congenital heart disease and related them to polycythemia and low oxygen content of the blood. In an earlier paper 7 we presented the incidence of various neurologic complications not related to cardiac surgery in 1875 patients with congenital heart disease. Seventy-two patients in our series had suffered a cerebrovascular accident. The present report is based on an analysis of their records. All of these patients have been seen and followed by the cardiac clinic of the Harriet Lane Home, The Johns Hopkins Hospital. I. Incidence in Congenital Heart Disease The incidence of cerebrovascular accidents varied with the type of congenital malformation
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