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Ann Thorac Surg 2007;84:612-618
© 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Original Articles: Cardiovascular

What is the Optimal Management of Infants With Coarctation and Ventricular Septal Defect?

^a Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
^b Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

Accepted for publication March 7, 2007.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Kanter, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, 1365 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30322 (Email: kkanter{at}emory.edu).

Presented at the Fifty-third Annual Meeting of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association, Tucson, AZ, Nov 8–11, 2006.

Background: The management of patients with aortic coarctation and ventricular septal defect (VSD) remains controversial. We reviewed our experience with coarctation and VSD from 2002 to 2006.

Methods: Three approaches were used to manage 36 consecutive infants with coarctation and VSD. Group I had staged coarctation repair with or without pulmonary artery banding, followed by VSD closure with two separate operations (two-stage, n = 11); Group II had coarctation repair and VSD closure on cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) with circulatory arrest or regional perfusion during coarctation repair (one-stage, one-incision, n = 10); Group III had coarctation repair without CPB through a thoracotomy, followed by VSD closure during the same operation (one-stage, two-incisions, n = 15).

Results: No patients died. One recoarctation occurred in group II. Group II had significantly longer times for CPB (135.6 ± 31.8 versus 94.3 ± 29.8 minutes for group I; 67.6 ± 16.7 minutes for group III; p < 0.001) and combined regional perfusion/circulatory arrest (30.0 ± 17.0 versus 5.3 ± 11.9 minutes for group I, 1.1 ± 4.4 minutes for group III, p < 0.0001). Group III compared with group II had significantly shorter lengths of stay in the intensive care unit (119.5 ± 64.8 versus 220.8 ± 198.8 hours, p = 0.04) and hospital (8.4 ± 3.8 versus 24.4 ± 24.4 days, p = 0.01). Combining values for the two hospitalizations in the group I infants, lengths of stay in the intensive care unit (178.8 ± 70.8 hours) and hospital (20.5 ± 11.6 days) were intermediate between groups II and III.

Conclusions: Primary repair of infants with coarctation and VSD using a one-stage approach through separate incisions affords excellent clinical results. One can avoid prolonged aortic cross-clamping, CPB, and circulatory arrest/regional perfusion. Compared with the group undergoing combined coarctation and VSD repair simultaneously by sternotomy, total lengths of stay in the intensive care unit and hospital were significantly decreased.

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