[Post-transfusional hepatitis as a complication of surgery using the heart-lung-machine in childhood]

After open-heart surgery with extracorporeal circulation on 41 children with congenital heart disease in 13 (about 32%) a hepatitis with a long incubation period developed. In 6 out of 13 children (46%) HBS-Ag and in 2 additional ones anti-HBS could be detected. In 6 of 13 cases (46%) a chronic hepatitis ensued, which could be proved histologically in 4 cases.