Long Term Function of Homografts Used for Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Reconstruction in Congenital Heart Disease

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. e46-e47
Author(s):  
M. Rebel ◽  
T. Gentles ◽  
K. Finucane
Keyword(s):  
Congenital Heart Disease ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Right Ventricular ◽  
Congenital Heart ◽  
Right Ventricular Outflow Tract ◽  
Ventricular Outflow Tract ◽  
Outflow Tract ◽  
Term Function

Reconstruction of the Right Ventricular Outflow Tract With a Conduit in Congenital Heart Disease

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-319
Author(s):  
John A. Waldhausen ◽  
William S. Pierce ◽  
Victor Whitman ◽  
John L. Pennock
Keyword(s):  
Congenital Heart Disease ◽  
Right Ventricular ◽  
Congenital Heart ◽  
Right Ventricular Outflow Tract ◽  
Ventricular Outflow Tract ◽  
Outflow Tract ◽  
Long Term Results ◽  
Surgical Reconstruction ◽  
The Right

A series of five patients with complex cyanotic congenital cardiac malformations underwent surgical reconstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract using a Dacron conduit with a porcine aortic valve. All patients survived and all have shown clinical improvement. At cardiac catheterization postoperatively, a pressure gradient of between 20 and 50 mm Hg across the conduit was found in all patients. This surgical approach to patients necessitating reconstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract is effective and appears to have the best long-term results.

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