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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;72:1344-1348
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Original article: cardiovascular

De Vega tricuspid annuloplasty for tricuspid regurgitation in children

^a Division of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
^b The Sibley Heart Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Address reprint requests to Dr Kanter, Division of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, 1365 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30322
e-mail: kkanter{at}emory.org

Presented at the Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, New Orleans, LA, Jan 29–31, 2001.

Background. Significant tricuspid valve regurgitation (TR) occurs with other congenital heart defects, typically after repair of right-sided obstructive lesions. Since 1991, we applied the De Vega tricuspid annuloplasty technique for TR in children.

Methods. Forty-one children, aged 5 months to 22.7 years (mean, 9.9 years) underwent 42 De Vega tricuspid annuloplasties for moderate or severe TR during correction of other heart defects. One child had a De Vega during primary ventricular septal defect repair. The remaining patients had prior repair of tetralogy of Fallot or pulmonary atresia, or both (19 patients), double-outlet right ventricle (6 patients), pulmonary stenosis (4 patients), pulmonary atresia and intact ventricular septum (3 patients), complete atrioventricular septal defect (3 patients), and other diagnoses (6 patients). At the time of the De Vega, 37 patients (88%) had pulmonary valve replacement or right ventricular to pulmonary artery conduit replacement. Other procedures included aortic or mitral repair or replacement (6 patients), atrial septal defect and ventricular septal defect closure (5 patients), pulmonary arterioplasty (6 patients), and tracheoplasty (1 patient).

Results. There were no deaths at follow-up of 3.4 ± 2.1 years; 1 child required cardiac transplantation 17 months postoperatively. Early postrepair echocardiography quantified TR as absent or mild (34 patients; 81%), mild-to-moderate (4 patients), moderate (3 patients), and severe (1 patient). The most recent echocardiogram showed moderate TR in 11 patients and severe TR in 2 patients (both with recurrent right ventricular hypertension). One child required tricuspid valve replacement 3 years later and 1 child had redo De Vega at the time of conduit re-replacement. No other child has symptomatic TR, significant tricuspid stenosis, or De Vega-related pacemaker implantation.

Conclusions. The De Vega tricuspid annuloplasty safely provides excellent relief of TR, usually in children undergoing pulmonary valve replacement or conduit replacement. Although echocardiographic TR tends to increase with time (especially with right ventricular hypertension), it rarely requires reintervention or causes symptoms.

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