ATS
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Ann Thorac Surg 2009;87:1885-1893. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.03.061
© 2009 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Personal Folders
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Author home page(s):
Osami Honjo
Glen S. Van Arsdell
Christopher A. Caldarone
Right arrow Permission Requests
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Honjo, O.
Right arrow Articles by Caldarone, C. A.
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Honjo, O.
Right arrow Articles by Caldarone, C. A.
Related Collections
Right arrow Congenital - cyanotic

Original Articles: Pediatric Cardiac

Clinical Outcomes, Program Evolution, and Pulmonary Artery Growth in Single Ventricle Palliation Using Hybrid and Norwood Palliative Strategies

Osami Honjo, MD, PhD, Lee N. Benson, MD, Holly E. Mewhort, BSc, Dragos Predescu, MD, Helen Holtby, MD, Glen S. Van Arsdell, MD, Christopher A. Caldarone, MD*

Labatt Family Heart Centre, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Accepted for publication March 23, 2009.

* Address correspondence to Dr Caldarone, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Ave, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada (Email: christopher.caldarone{at}sickkids.ca).

Presented at the Forty-fifth Annual Meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, San Francisco, CA, Jan 26–28, 2009.

Background: Hybrid strategies for single ventricle palliation may differ from Norwood strategies in terms of anatomic and physiologic growth stimuli to the pulmonary arteries (PA), hemodynamics, resource utilization, and survival. Few studies have directly compared these strategies.

Methods: In all, 58 patients underwent Norwood (Blalock-Taussig shunt; n = 39) or hybrid (n = 19) single ventricle palliation (2004 to 2007). Hemodynamics, PA morphology, hemodynamics, resource utilization, and survival were reviewed.

Results: At pre–stage 2 evaluation, there were nonsignificant trends toward lower ventricular end-diastolic pressure, higher mixed venous saturation, and larger Nakata and lower lobe indices in the hybrids. Mean PA pressures were not different between groups. Four Norwood patients (10%) underwent transplantation before stage 2 palliation. Forty-two patients underwent stage 2 palliation (bidirectional cavopulmonary shunt or stage 2 hybrid (aortic arch reconstruction and bidirectional cavopulmonary shunt). Requirement for PA plasty, postoperative CVP, stage 2 survival, and 1-year survival were similar between groups. Combined (stage 1 plus stage 2) intubation time, intensive care unit time, and hospital length of stay was shorter for hybrids in comparison with Norwood survivors (p < 0.05). Comparison of resource utilization at the time of arch reconstruction (Norwood procedure or stage 2 hybrid), demonstrated a time-related trend toward improvement (weak negative correlation: intubation, rho = –0.386, p = 0.172; intensive care unit stay, rho = –0.487, p = 0.077; hospital stay, rho = –0.429, p = 0.126) in the hybrid group, but not in the Norwood group.

Conclusions: Hybrid palliation does not have a significant adverse impact on PA development, with comparable PA growth and hemodynamics. The demonstration of equivalent survival, diminished hospital utilization, and trends indicating ongoing refinement of the hybrid strategy warrants a prospective randomized trial.






HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
ANN THORAC SURG ASIAN CARDIOVASC THORAC ANN EUR J CARDIOTHORAC SURG
J THORAC CARDIOVASC SURG ICVTS ALL CTSNet JOURNALS
Copyright © 2009 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.