Outcomes of Single Ventricle Patients Undergoing the Kawashima Procedure: Can We Do Better?

World Journal for Pediatric & Congenital Heart Surgery
Bahaaldin AlsoufiTimothy P Slesnick

Abstract

Current technology advances in virtual surgery modeling and computational flow dynamics allow preoperative individualized computer-based design of Fontan operation. To determine potential role of those innovations in patients undergoing hepatic vein incorporation (HVI) following Kawashima operation, we retrospectively examined historic cohort of patients who underwent HVI following Kawashima with focus on regression of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs). Twenty-two children with single ventricle and interrupted inferior vena cava underwent Kawashima operation (2002-12). Twenty-one (96%) patients had left atrial isomerism and 21 (96%) had undergone prior first-stage palliation. Clinical outcomes were examined. Mean O2 saturation (SaO2) increased from 77% ± 8% to 85% ± 6% ( P = .002) after Kawashima. Fifteen (68%) patients developed PAVMs. Eighteen patients underwent HVI (median age and interval from Kawashima: 4.4 and 3.7 years, respectively). Mean SaO2 prior to HVI was 77% ± 8% and increased to 81% ± 10% at the time of hospital discharge ( P = .250), with five patients requiring home oxygen. On follow-up, mean SaO2 increased to 95% ± 4% ( P < .001). Overall ten-year survival following Kawashima was 94%. A large numbe...Continue Reading

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