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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 86, 777-783, Copyright © 1983 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Short-term hemodynamic results after right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction using a cusp-bearing transannular patch

HH Sievers, PE Lange, D Regensburger, CA Yankah, DG Onnasch, J Bursch, PH Heintzen and A Bernhard

Correction of right ventricular outflow tract obstruction remains a challenge to cardiovascular surgeons. In order to relieve this obstruction and at the same time prevent or minimize pulmonary insufficiency, we inserted a cusp-bearing transannular patch (monocusp) in 14 patients. To test this objective, we restudied 13 of these patients 0.5 to 4 months postoperatively, including quantifying pulmonary insufficiency using an accurate videodensitometric method. In all patients a degree of pulmonary insufficiency ranging from 8% to 46% of total stroke volume (mean 22.7 +/- 10.6%) was measured, and in all but one a residual right ventricular outflow pressure gradient of 2 to 22 mm Hg (mean 10 +/- 7 mm Hg) was measured. There was an inverse relation between the degree of pulmonary insufficiency and both the pressure gradient (r = -0.89) and the ratio of the pulmonary valve ring diameter to monocusp depth (r = -0.67). An ideal reconstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract obstruction, without any postoperative pulmonary insufficiency and stenosis, was not achieved by the implantation of a monocusp in the described fashion. The postoperative results were acceptable in only a few patients. A reduction of pulmonary insufficiency seems to be associated with a small residual pressure gradient as well as a relatively small cusp size. Additional studies are necessary to further improve surgical correction of right ventricular outflow tract obstruction with reproducible and predictable results.

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