The 56th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery

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会長要望セッション

総動脈幹症

会長要望セッション03(II-YB03)
総動脈幹症に対する内科的・外科的治療戦略

Mon. Nov 23, 2020 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Track4

座長:中野 俊秀(福岡市立こども病院 心臓血管外科)
座長:黒嵜 健一(国立循環器病研究センター 小児循環器内科部)

[II-YB03-1] 【基調講演】Long-Term outcome up to 40 years following repair of Common Arterial Trunk in 184 patients

Jürgen Hörer (Department for congenital and pediatric heart surgery, German Heart Centre Munich (TUM) / Division for congenital and pediatric heart surgery, University Hospital of Munich (LMU))

Objective: To determine potential risk factors for survival and freedom from reoperation in patients after common arterial trunk (CAT) repair.
Method: Freedom from events of 184 consecutive patients corrected between 1976 and 2020 was estimated using Kaplan-Meier method. Potential risk factors were compared using log-rank test and Cox regression modeling.
Results: Median follow-up time was 12.2 years (2697 patient years, maximum 41.2 years). Median age at correction was 87 days, and median weight was 3.8 kg. Neonatal repair was performed in 12.0 %. Interrupted aortic arch was present in 7.9 % and coronary abnormalities in 20 %. Repair was performed before 2000 in 63.6 %. Right ventricle to pulmonary artery (RV-PA) reconstruction was performed using an allograft (45.7 %), a xenograft (39.7 %) or valveless connection (14.7 %). Survival before 2000 at 10, 20 and 30 years was 64.9±4.4 %, 62.2±4.5 % and 62.0±4.6 %, respectively. Survival after 2000 was 87.8±4.0 % at 1 year with no deaths thereafter. All patients underwent reoperations. Freedom from reoperation was 54.3±4.3 %, 24.4±4.1%, and 12.8±3.7% at 5, 10 and 20 years, respectively. Era of surgery (p=0.013) emerged as significant risk factors for survival in multivariate analyses. Type of RV-PA conduit (p=0.002) and small Conduits (p<0.001) were significant risk factors for conduit reoperations in multivariate analyses. A valveless RV-PA connection performed better that homografts and homografts performed better than xenografts in terms of reoperations.
Conclusions: Hospital and long term survival has markedly improved after the year 2000, probably ensuring survival into the forth decade. The ideal RV-PA graft in heterotopic position has not been found yet.