title: Rest and exercise right and left ventricular function late after the Mustard operation: assessment by radionuclide ventriculography.
abstract: To evaluate ventricular function late after atrial repair of transposition of the great arteries (TGA), 26 asymptomatic patients had rest and exercise radionuclide ventriculography performed a mean of 9 years (range 5 to 15) after undergoing the Mustard operation. The mean resting right (systemic) ventricular (RV) ejection fraction (EF) was 0.50 +/- 0.10 (+/- 1 standard deviation); the RVEF was less than 0.45 in 8 patients. With exercise the RVEF increased in 9 patients and either failed to increase or decreased in 15 (including all 8 patients with resting values less than 0.45). The weight-adjusted work load performed was a first predictor of RV exercise response (sensitivity 87%, specificity 92%); patients whose RVEF increased did more work. The mean resting left (pulmonary) ventricular (LV) EF was 0.58 +/- 0.09; the LVEF was less than 0.50 in 3 patients. With exercise the LVEF increased in 14 patients and did not increase in 10 (including all 3 with resting values less than 0.50). The presence of complex ventricular arrhythmia documented on Holter monitoring was a first predictor of failure of the LVEF to increase with exercise (sensitivity 84%, specificity 71%). The patient's age, operative age, postoperative interval, residual arterial desaturation, preoperative large ventricular septal defect or pulmonary stenosis, postoperative pulmonary stenosis or superior vena caval obstruction, or performance of a second open-heart procedure was predictive of the rest or exercise EF of either ventricle.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002302:Cardiac Output; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006334:Heart Function Tests; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D005082:Physical Exertion; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013318:Stroke Volume; D014188:Transposition of Great Vessels / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*