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. 2015 Oct;36(7):1502-9.
doi: 10.1007/s00246-015-1193-6. Epub 2015 May 15.

Left Ventricular Remodeling and Function in Children with Biventricular Circulation After Fetal Aortic Valvuloplasty

Kevin G Friedman  1   2 , Lindsay Freud  3   4 , Maria Escobar-Diaz  3   4 , Puja Banka  3   4 , Sitaram Emani  3   4 , Wayne Tworetzky  3   4
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Left Ventricular Remodeling and Function in Children with Biventricular Circulation After Fetal Aortic Valvuloplasty

Kevin G Friedman et al. Pediatr Cardiol. 2015 Oct.

Abstract

Fetal aortic valvuloplasty (FAV) has shown promise in averting the progression of fetal aortic stenosis to hypoplastic left-heart syndrome. Altered loading conditions due to valvar disease, intrinsic endomyocardial abnormalities, and procedures that alter endomyocardial mechanics may place patients with biventricular circulation (BiV) after FAV at risk of abnormal LV remodeling and function. Using the most recent echo data on BiV patients after technically successful FAV (n = 34), we evaluated LV remodeling pattern, risk factors for pathologic LV remodeling, and the association between LV remodeling pattern and LV function. Median age at follow-up was 4.7 years (range 1.0-12.5). Cardiac interventions were common. At latest follow-up, no patient had hypoplastic LV. Nineteen patients (55 %) had dilated LV, and five (16 %) patients had severely dilated LV. LV remodeling patterns were as follows: 12 (35 %) normal ventricle, 11 (32 %) mixed hypertrophy, 8 (24 %) eccentric hypertrophy or remodeling, and 3 (9 %) concentric hypertrophy. Univariate factors associated with pathologic LV remodeling were long-standing AR, ≥2 cardiac interventions, EFE resection, and aortic or mitral regurgitation ≥ moderate at most recent follow-up. In multivariate analysis, only long-standing AR fraction remained associated with pathologic remodeling. Pathologic LV remodeling was associated with depressed ejection fraction, lower septal E´, and higher E/E´. Pathologic LV remodeling, primarily eccentric or mixed hypertrophy, is common in BiV patients after FAV and is related to LV loading conditions imposed by valvar disease. Pathologic remodeling is associated with both systolic and diastolic dysfunction in this population.

Keywords: Aortic stenosis; Diastolic dysfunction; Fetal cardiology; Left ventricular remodeling.

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Figure 1.
Kaplan- Meier Curves for Freedom for Pathologic Remodeling: A. Entire cohort B. Long-standing aortic regurgitation C. Moderate mitral and/or aortic regurgitation at most recent follow-up D. Endocardial fibroelastosis resection
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