Ventricular function in the single ventricle before and after Fontan surgery
| Autor: | Donald A. Girod, Sanjay R. Parikh, Randall L. Caldwell, Roger A. Hurwitz |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Heart Defects Congenital Male medicine.medical_specialty animal structures Ventricular Ejection Fraction Adolescent Heart Ventricles medicine.medical_treatment Fontan procedure Radionuclide angiography Internal medicine medicine.artery medicine Humans Abnormalities Multiple cardiovascular diseases Radionuclide Angiography Child Atrioventricular valve Ejection fraction medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Stroke Volume Prognosis Surgery Transplantation medicine.anatomical_structure Ventricle Pulmonary artery cardiovascular system Cardiology Female Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | The American Journal of Cardiology. 67:1390-1395 |
| ISSN: | 0002-9149 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0002-9149(91)90470-6 |
| Popis: | To better delineate the importance of ventricular function in patients with a single ventricle and assess its relation to outcome after the Fontan procedure, 47 patients with a single ventricle were studied. Ventricular ejection fraction was estimated by radionuclide angiocardiography. Before Fontan surgery, ejection fraction was 0.57 +/- 0.10 (mean +/- standard deviation). This differed significantly from the normal mean left ventricular ejection fraction of 0.68 +/- 0.09 (p less than 0.001) derived in our laboratory by radionuclide angiocardiographic methods. Age, ventricular morphology and the presence of pulmonary artery band or systemic to pulmonary artery shunts had no statistical relation to ventricular ejection fraction in patients with a single ventricle. Serial preoperative evaluation in 15 patients over 3.8 +/- 1.3 years revealed no significant change in ventricular ejection fraction; however, increased atrioventricular valve regurgitation was documented in 4 of these 15. Modified Fontan procedure was performed in 24 of the 47 study patients; 7 have died, 1 has undergone cardiac transplantation and 1 faces possible transplantation. No difference was noted in preoperative ejection fraction between survivors and nonsurvivors. Ventricular morphology, age at Fontan surgery and operative factors such as bypass and cross-clamp time were not related to functional outcome. Preoperative ejection fraction of 0.52 +/- 0.08 decreased to 0.39 +/- 0.11 (p less than 0.001) when evaluated 1.16 +/- 0.44 years after Fontan surgery. In patients with a single ventricle (1) ventricular ejection fraction is less than that of the normal systemic ventricle; (2) during childhood, ejection fraction is not related to age or ventricular morphology; and (3) ventricular ejection fraction frequently decreases after a Fontan repair.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS) |
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