Late follow-up of patients submitted to total cavopulmonary derivation: clinical aspects, reinterventions, and complications interfering in morbidity
Rev. bras. cir. cardiovasc
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33(3): 271-276, May-June 2018. tab, graf
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ABSTRACT
Abstract Objective:
To identify main complications in outpatient follow-up, as well as factors before or during operation that may interfere in patient's evolution.Methods:
Retrospective study of patients submitted to total cavopulmonary shunt with extracardiac conduit from 2000 to 2014 at the Hospital do Coração (São Paulo, Brazil) and who underwent clinical follow-up at this institution.Results:
One hundred and fifty surgeries were performed and 59 patients maintained outpatient follow-up. The mean age of these patients at the time of surgery was 4.45 years (median of 45 months) and 70.2% of them were males. Among the patients undergoing outpatient follow-up, postoperative time at evaluation ranged from 10 days to 145 months; 30 (50.8%) patients had single left ventricle and 29 (49.2%) had single right ventricle (48.2% of these presented with hypoplastic left heart syndrome [HLHS]). Patients with single left ventricle had a higher percentage of reintervention-free survival, but without statistically significant difference. 40% of the patients had no complications and 35% of them presented with thrombosis at some point in the follow-up period, with ventricular dysfunction being the second most frequently found complication (15% of cases), mainly among patients with single right ventricle morphology (P=0.04). Between the patients currently under follow-up, 20 (35%) of them had been evaluated by ultrasonography and had some degree of hepatic congestion and/or hepatomegaly. 16.7% of the patients with such alteration had HLHS (P=0.057).Conclusion:
Except for the right ventricular morphology, no other factor has been shown to interfere in late evolution after total cavopulmonary shunt.
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Main subject:
Postoperative Complications
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Heart Bypass, Right
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Adolescent
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
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Infant, Newborn
Country/Region as subject:
South America
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Brazil
Language:
English
Journal:
Rev. bras. cir. cardiovasc
Journal subject:
Cardiology
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General Surgery
Year:
2018
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Hospital do Coração/BR
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