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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998;115:77-83
© 1998 Mosby, Inc.

SURGERY FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

Left ventricular dysfunction after open repair of simple congenital heart defects in infants and children: Quantitation with the use of a conductance catheter immediately after bypass

From the Departments of Paediatric Cardiology,^a Cardiac Surgery,^b and Anaesthesia,^c Royal Brompton Hospital, Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, London, United Kingdom.

This research was funded by the Scott Rhodes Research Fund and the Royal Brompton Hospital Clinical Research Committee.

Received for publication Oct. 23, 1996; revisions requested March 3, 1997; revisions received May 5, 1997; accepted for publication June 12, 1997. Address for reprints: Andrew N. Redington, MD, FRCP, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, Chelsea, London SW3 6NP, United Kingdom.

Objective: Quantification of myocardial injury after the simplest pediatric operations by load-independent indices of left ventricular function, using conductance and Mikro-Tip pressure catheters (Millar Instruments, Inc., Houston, Tex.) inserted through the left ventricular apex.
Methods: Sixteen infants and children with intact ventricular septum undergoing cardiac operations had left ventricular function measured, immediately before and after bypass. Real-time pressure-volume loops were generated by conductance and Mikro-Tip pressure catheters placed in the long-axis via the left ventricular apex, and preload was varied by transient snaring of the inferior vena cava.
Results: Good quality pressure-volume loops were generated in 13 patients (atrial septal defects, n = 11; double-chambered right ventricle, n = 1; supravalvular aortic stenosis, n = 1; age 0.25 to 14.4 years, weight 3.1 to 46.4 kg). Their mean bypass time was 41 ± 14 minutes and mean aortic crossclamp time 27 ± 11 minutes. End-systolic elastance decreased by 40.7% from 0.34 ± 0.17 to 0.21 ± 0.15 mm Hg^-1·ml^-1·kg^-1 (p < 0.001). There were no significant changes in the slope of the stroke work–end-diastolic volume relationship, end-diastolic elastance, time constant of isovolumic relaxation, and normalized values of the maxima and minima of the first derivative of developed left ventricular pressure.
Conclusion: Load-independent indices of left ventricular function can be derived from left ventricular pressure-volume loops generated by conductance and Mikro-Tip pressure catheters during the perioperative period in infants and children undergoing cardiac operations. Incomplete myocardial protection was demonstrated by a deterioration in systolic function after even short bypass and crossclamp times.

Ignorance of the cause of postoperative myocardial dysfunction in the immature heart is compounded by the incomplete myocardial protection afforded by current cardioplegic strategies. ^1,5 Investigations of the mechanisms and treatment of postoperative ventricular dysfunction are hampered by use of nonspecific clinical end points as indirect estimates of ventricular function, for example, requirement for inotropic agents, duration of ventilation, intensive care unit stay, and mortality. These clinical indices are relatively insensitive to changes in ventricular function and necessitate large cohorts of patients to detect even major differences in outcome from differing myocardial protective strategies.

To measure left ventricular function optimally during the perioperative period, with its dramatic changes in loading conditions, necessitates the use of load-independent indices of systolic and diastolic function. In infants and children with an intact ventricular septum undergoing cardiac operations (mainly atrial septal defect closure), we report the changes in left ventricular function assessed from the pressure-volume plane with the use of a conductance catheter and Mikro-Tip pressure catheter (Millar Instruments, Inc., Houston, Tex). In animal and human studies the conductance catheter is placed in the long axis of the left ventricle, most commonly through the aortic valve, with the use of retrograde arterial cannulation or aortotomy. ^6-11 This is clearly impractical in children undergoing bypass procedures, and in this study we report the first clinical use of custom-built miniature catheters placed in the same long axis, but via the left ventricular apex.

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