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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 78, 351-364, Copyright © 1979 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Late failure of porcine valve heterografts in children

AS Geha, H Laks, HC Stansel Jr, JF Cornhill, JW Kilman, MJ Buckley and WC Roberts

Heterograft porcine valves have gained wide acceptance in replacement of diseased cardiac valves, and their clinical performance in adults has been very satisfactory over follow-up periods of up to 8 years. Valve replacement in children is relatively infrequent and experience with porcine xenografts is necessarily small. Our combined experience at three university hospitals has been with 25 children, 17 months to 16 years of age, who have been followed for 10 to 54 months (mean follow-up 33 months). Porcine valves were used to replace the aortic valve in nine, the mitral valve in seven, both valves in two, the tricuspid valve in two, and the pulmonary valve in five patients. Severe bioprosthetic valve dysfunction has occurred in five (20%) of these patients so far and necessitated replacement because of severe stenosis in mitral (two) or aortic (three) valve prostheses at 18 to 45 months after implantation; one postoperative death occurred among the five reoperations. Pathological examination showed extensive fragmentation of collagen with focal heavy calcification and degeneration. In addition we have encountered deterioration and calcification of two porcine valves in 23 valved conduits followed for 12 to 70 months (mean 43 months), requiring removal and replacement of the valves 65 and 67 months after implantation. This experience indicates a disquietingly high incidence of relatively early failure of porcine xenograft valves in children. This is significantly higher than the failure rate observed in adult patients. The failure rate is not consistently related to the small size of an implanted valve which becomes relatively narrow with the growth of the patient, leading to excessive turbulence and trauma to the prosthesis. Other factors, including increased turnover of calcium and accelerated rejection in growing children, may contribute to these failures and should be examined in order to improve long-term results. A satisfactory performance would make heterografts the ideal valvular prosthesis in children, since anticoagulation is avoided.

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