[Prognostic study of 3 main palliative surgical procedures in patients with single ventricle].
In emergency cases of babies with a single ventricle and an obstruction to aortic outflow, low pulmonary flow or, on the contrary, high pulmonary flow, only palliative surgical procedures can be proposed. The authors set out to determine the prognosis of a population with this type of lesion having undergone one of the three following procedures: systemic pulmonary shunt, pulmonary artery banding, repair of the aortic arch (usually associated with pulmonary banding). One hundred and nineteen (63%) of the 185 patients hospitalised between 1/01/1970 and 31/12/1991 in the paediatric cardiology unit of the Cardiac Hospital of Lyon with a diagnosis of single ventricle, underwent one of these three procedures as a treatment of first intention. The survival of the 22 patients who underwent pulmonary artery banding (90 +/- 6%, 85 +/- 8%, 85 +/- 8% at 1.5 and 10 years respectively) was significantly better than that of the patients undergoing systemico-pulmonary shunt (63 +/- 6%, 53 +/- 6% and 49 +/- 6% at 1.5 and 10 years respectively). On the other hand, repair of an obstacle of the aortic arch was a precarious procedure as the survival was only 23 +/- 11%, 16 +/- 11% and 16 +/- 11% and 1.5 and 10 years respectively). These results suggest, with the reserve inherent to the methodology of retrospective studies of small populations, that it is not illogical to continue to propose pulmonary artery banding for babies with single ventricle associated with high pulmonary flow. This procedure should only be envisaged after strict selection of candidates and providing there are facilities for intensive postoperative care.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Service de cardiologie C, Hôpital cardiovasculaire et pneumologique, BP Lyon-Monchat.
Bozio
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Chapuis
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Champsaur
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Sassolas
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Ninet
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Di Filippo
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André
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Normand
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D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods* / Q000401:mortality; D018610:Heart Bypass, Right; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011379:Prognosis; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000601:surgery; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome
Etude pronostique des trois principales interventions de chirurgie palliative en présence d'un ventricule unique.