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Predictive value of intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography in complete atrioventricular septal defect
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- Issue Date
- 2005-06-25
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Citation
- Ann Thorac Surg. 2005 Jul;80(1):56-9.
- Keywords
- Adolescent ; Adult ; Cardiac Surgical Procedures ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Female ; Heart Septal Defects/complications/*surgery ; Heart Valve Diseases/complications/surgery/ultrasonography ; Humans ; Infant ; Intraoperative Period ; Male ; Postoperative Period ; Predictive Value of Tests ; Retrospective Studies ; Treatment Outcome ; Echocardiography ; Echocardiography, Transesophageal
- Abstract
- BACKGROUND: Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography and follow-up transthoracic echocardiography have been useful in assessing cardiac function in complete atrioventricular septal defects. However, it has been suggested that a discrepancy exists between intraoperative and postoperative findings, and that intraoperative findings cannot reliably predict long-term results. This study aims to determine whether this discrepancy exists and to assess whether it is possible to predict follow-up results using intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was made in 35 patients who underwent biventricular repair by one surgeon between November 1997 and January 2004. All patients received intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography and follow-up transthoracic echocardiography at 19.1 +/- 18.02 months (range, 7 days to 5 years; median, 15.1 months). RESULTS: In left-sided atrioventricular valve regurgitation, 34.3% (12 of 35) of patients showed discrepancy during follow-up, and 28.6% (10 of 35) showed progression of regurgitation (from grade I to II). In right-sided atrioventricular valve, 11.4% (4 of 35) of patients showed discrepancy, 9.6% (3 of 35) showed progression of regurgitation (from grade I to II). CONCLUSIONS: In complete atrioventricular septal defects, intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography did not show the same findings as that of follow-up transthoracic echocardiography in some cases. However, this discrepancy is not so great as to require reoperation in early to midterm follow-up. Therefore, intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography may be used as tool to predict durability of surgical results and to decrease the incidence of reoperation in complete atrioventricular septal defects.
- ISSN
- 1552-6259 (Electronic)
- Language
- English
- URI
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=15975339
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/15798
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