[Treatment of patients with three-atrium heart].

Typical three-atrium heart constitute a rare inborn heart failure, in which pulmonary veins drain into the proximal additional camera of the left atrium, separated from distal left pericardium cavity of it own by diaphragm, in which there is one or more restrictive apertures. Of 6770 patients, consecutively operated on by one surgeon, in 15 (0.21%) ageing from 7 mo to 30 years the three-atrium heart was revealed. In all the patients the surgical correction of the failure was accomplished using artificial blood circulation. The early diagnosis and surgical treatment of the patients, suffering three-atrium heart failure, secures good late results and quality of life.