Mid-term results and risk factors for functional single ventricles
associated with total anomalous pulmonary venous connection
Abstract
Backgroud: Surgical results of functional single ventricle (FSV)
patients with totally anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC),
have a poor outcome. We retrospectively analyzed our 10-year surgical
clinical experience and risk factors of mortality of these patients.
Methods: Between March 2008 and August 2018, 43 consecutive patients
with FSV and TAPVC underwent initial surgical palliation and TAPVC
repair or not. The median body weight and age were 12 (range 5-44) kg
and 32 (range 2-256) months, respectively. Among these cases, there are
19 cases of supracardiac TAPVC, 22 of intracardiac type, and 2 of mixed
type. 12 patients need to perform TAPVC repair during initial surgical
palliation (supracardiac in 10 and mixed type in 2). Results: Overall
survival at 1 and 5 years were 89.5% and 83.3%, respectively. In TAPVC
repair group and non-TAPVC repair group, overall survival after the
initial surgical palliation were 58.3 and 87.1% at 1 year, 40.0% and
87.1% at 3 years, respectively. Cox univariate analysis detected that
preoperative pulmonary vein obstruction (PVO) (p=0.047) and concomitant
TAPVC repair (p=0.007) were risk factors for mortality, and
multivariable analysis indicated concomitant TAPVC repair as the only
factor (p=0.033). Conclusions: The mid-term results of surgical results
of FSV associated with TAPVC, especially for patients who need to
concomitant TAPVC repair, remain poor. Preoperative PVO is identified as
risk factor that increases mortality of these patients.