Woo Young Park¹, Gi Beom Kim^1,*, Sang Yun Lee¹, Mi Kyoung Song¹, Hye Won Kwon¹, Hyo Soon An¹, Eun Jung Bae¹, Sungkyu Cho², Jae Gun Kwak², Woong-Han Kim²

Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.17, No.3, pp. 335-350, 2022, DOI:10.32604/chd.2022.018666

Abstract Objectives: To establish long-term outcome of surgical pulmonary valve replacement (PVR) in congenital heart disease (CHD) and to identify risk factors for overall mortality, operative mortality, and repetitive PVR. Methods: This is a retrospective study of 375 surgical PVR in 293 patients who underwent surgical PVR for CHD between January 2000 and May 2020. We only included patients with index PVR with previous open-heart surgery regardless of the number of PVRs. The previous surgical history of patients who underwent PVR during the study period was also included. Patients who underwent the Rastelli operation, and those who underwent single PVR without… More >

Han Zhang, Gang Li, Xiangming Fan, Junwu Su^*

Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.15, No.5, pp. 361-367, 2020, DOI:10.32604/CHD.2020.013020

Abstract Background: To identify factors associated with shunt failure in patients with a systemic pulmonary shunt (SPS). Methods: We retrospectively assessed 451 patients who received SPS. Perioperative parameters such as hemoglobin, Nakata Index, and shunt size were assessed, and factors influencing shunt failure after an initial palliative shunt operation were analyzed. Results: We analyzed 451 patients who underwent isolated SPS surgery at Anzhen Hospital. Of these, shunt failure occurred in 48 (10.6%) cases after a median of 6.5 days. The 30-day mortality rate was 2.1%. Univariate and logistic regression analysis revealed that a Nakata Index ≤ 105 and vasoactive-inotropic score (VIS)… More >

Martin Christmann^1,2, Alexandra Wipf^1,2, Hitendu Dave^2,3, Daniel Quandt^1,2, Oliver Niesse^1,2, Markus Deisenberg^2,4, Martin Hersberger^2,5, Oliver Kretschmar^1,2, Walter Knirsch^1,2

Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.13, No.4, pp. 594-601, 2018, DOI:10.1111/chd.12615

Abstract Objective: To find risk factors for a complicated early postoperative course after arterial switch operation (ASO) in neonates with d-transposition of the great arteries (dTGA). In addition to anatomical and surgical parameters, the predictive value of early postoperative troponin T (TnT) values in correlation to the early postoperative course after ASO is analyzed.
Methods: Seventy-nine neonates (57 (72%) male) with simple dTGA treated by ASO between 2009 and 2016 were included in the analysis. A complicated early postoperative course (30 days) was defined by one of the following criteria: (A) moderate to severe cardiac dysfunction without rhythm disturbances, (B) rhythm… More >