• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.45-52
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• 2021

Background: Atrial septal defect (ASD) is the most common congenital heart disease. However, the details of cardiac chamber remodeling after surgery are not well known, although this is an important issue that should be analyzed to understand long-term outcomes. Methods: Between November 2017 and January 2019, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging was performed preoperatively, at a 1-month postoperative follow-up, and at a 1-year postoperative follow-up. Cardiac chamber volume, valve regurgitation volume, and ejection fraction were measured as functions of time. Results: Thirteen patients (10 men and 3 women) were included. The median age at surgery was 51.4 years. The preoperative median ratio of flow in the pulmonary and systemic circulation was 2.3. The preoperative mean right ventricular (RV) end-diastolic volume index (EDVi) and RV end-systolic volume index (ESVi) had significantly decreased at the 1-month postoperative follow-up (p<0.001, p=0.001, respectively). The decrease in the RVEDVi (p=0.085) and RVESVi (p=0.023) continued until the postoperative 1-year follow-up, although the rate of decrease was slower. Tricuspid valve regurgitation had also decreased at the 1-month postoperative follow-up (p=0.022), and continued to decrease at a reduced rate (p=0.129). Although the RVEDVi and RVESVi improved after ASD closure, the RV volume parameters were still larger than the left ventricular (LV) volume parameters at the 1-year follow-up (RVEDVi vs. LVEDVi: p=0.016; RVESVi vs. LVESVi: p=0.001). Conclusion: Cardiac remodeling after ASD closure is common and mainly occurs in the early postoperative period. However, complete normalization does not occur.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.1139-1145
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• 1990

Seven infants less than age 3 months underwent patch aortoplasty and tube graft bypass for relief of coarctation of aorta. All had intractable congestive heart failure, despite aggressive medical therapy Each infant had other cardiac anomalies including patent ductus arteriosus, ventricular septal defect, atrial septal defect and congenital mitral stenosis. All patients underwent closure of the ductus arteriosus and patch angioplasty of the aorta to produce a luminal diameter of at least 15mm or tube graft interposition utilizing the Gortex tube graft diameter larger than 10mm. In 5 patients who had ventricular defect, they underwent pulmonary arterial banding. &ere was one hospital death 17 days after operation secondary to the hydronephrosis and renal failure. Hospitalization was less than 10 days after operation except one case. In 3 patients who had associated VSD, open heart surgery[VSD closure+PA debanding]was done without difficulty. Surgical repair of critical coarctation of the aorta in infants can safely be offered despite the poor preoperative condition and presence of other cardiac anomalies.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.268-273
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• 1977

During the period from March, 1963, to November, 1977, forty-eight patients with secundum type atrial septal defects have undergone surgical repair using cardiopulmonary bypass with a pump oxygenator at the Seoul National University Hospital. Twenty-six [55 percent] of the patients were females and Twenty-two [45 percent] were males. The patients varied in age from 3 years to 51 years. We have divided secundum defects into three types. These are: 1] the high defect; 2] Ovale type defect; and 3] low defect including the defect in the area of the coronary sinus. An ovale type defect was present in forty-one cases [85 percent]. Partial anomalous pulmonary venous connections were present in two patients in the high defect group. All of the forty-eight patients had had right heart catheterization before operation. The pulmonary to systemic flow ratio [Qp/Qs] was determined in our 38 patients. The Qp/Qs was less than 1.5/1 in only five of the 38 patients. Among the 33 patients with moderate and severe left-to-right shunts [Qp/Qs 1.6-3.5/1], the systolic pulmonary artery pressures. ranged from 30 to 80 mm Hg. Large left-to-right shunts [Qp/Qs>3.6/1] were present in 13 patients. The postoperative complications occurred in 13 patients [27. 1 percent]. Postoperative wound infections were the most frequent complications being present in 6 patients [12.5%]. Forty-six of the patients with secundum atrial septal defects survived surgical repair of their defects. Thus the hospital mortality of surgery was 4.2 percent. The causes of death in the early postoperative period were: 1] low cardiac output syndrome related to severe pulmonary hypertension in one case; and 2] postoperative several bleeding in one case.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제53권1호
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• pp.93-96
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• 2010

15년전 심방중격 결손증 진단을 받은 47세 남자 환자가 심도자 검사를 위해 입원하였다. 환자는 입술과 손톱에서 명확한 청색증을 보이고 있었으며 심한 폐동맥 고혈압을 나타내고 있었다. 본 환자는 지난 수년간 아이젠멩거 증후군으로 진단되어 대증적 치료만을 받아오고 있었다. 심도자 검사 후 환자는 흡입형 Iloprost 치료를 시작 하였으며 성공적으로 심방중격결손증 수술을 받을 수 있었다. 환자는 수술 후에도 치료를 지속하였다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.630-640
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• 1988

We clinically evaluated 222 cases of ventricular septal defect which we experienced at Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Pusan National University Hospital between July 1981 and March 1988. These patients were occupied 46.2% of all congenital heart disease operated on its same period. Of 222 cases, 132 patients were male and 90 patients were female. Their age distribution ranged from 8 months to 34 years of age and their mean age was 10.3 years. Among these patients, 86 patients had associated cardiac anomalies, which were patent foramen ovale 43 cases[19.5%], Atrial septal defect 18 cases[8.1%], patent ductus arteriosus 8 cases[3.6%], aortic insufficiency 7 cases[3.2%], infundibular pulmonary stenosis 5 cases[2.3%] and etc. There was statistically significant correlationship between VSD size and Qp/Qs, Rp/Rs, Pp/Ps respectively. All cases were operated under cardiopulmonary bypass and 157 patients[70.7%] would be corrected through right atrial approach. 158 patients[71.2%] underwent closure of ventricular septal defect with primary closure and the remained patients[28.8%] with patch closure. In anatomical classification by Kirklin, type I constituted 23.4%, type II 73.4%, type III 0.5%, type I and type II 1.4%, and type II and type III 1.4%. Important postoperative EGG changes were noted in 57 cases[25.7%] and incomplete right bundle branch block was most common[12.6%]. 54 patients[24.3%] developed minor and major postoperative complications and 9 patients died of several complications and overall operative mortality was 4.1%.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제29권9호
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• pp.945-950
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• 1996

경북대학교병원 흉부외과학교실에서 1982년 4월부터 1995년 3월사이에 개심술을 시행하였던 좌심실-우심방 단락 12례에 대한 치료경험을 보고한다. 환자들의 연령은 3세에서 26세까지로, 평균연령은 8.5세 이 었고, 성별은 남자가 7명, 여자가 5명이었다. 술전의 단순흉부 X-선소견상 심흉비의 평균치는 0.59이었고, 폐혈관음영의 증가가 3례, 우심방의 확장이 4례에서 있었다. 기록을 확인할 수 있었던 9례에서의 술전 심초음파검사소견에 의하면, 진단명은 좌심실-우심방 단락 2례, 심실중격결손 6례 및 심방중격 결손 1례로 되어 있었다. 따라서 이 검사에 의한 좌심실-우심방판락의 진단률은 22.2%(219)였다. 술전의 심혈 관조영소견으로는, 좌심실-우심방 단락 5례, 심실중격결손 5례, 심방중격결손 1례, 그리고 심실중격 결손 및 심방중격결손 1례로 진단되었다. 그러므로 이 검사에 의한 진단률은 41.6% (5112)였다. 수술소견상, 좌심실-우심방 단락의 형태는 판막상부형 결손 5례(42%), 판막하부형 결손4례(33%)및 복합형 결손3 례 (25%)로 분류되었다. 한편 판막하부형 결손례들은 모두 삼첨 판막 중격엽의 이상을 동반하고 있었는데, 즉 천공이 3례, 구열\ulcorner 1례에서 있었다. 그러나 판막상부형이나 복합형 결손에서는 삼첨판의 이상은 볼 수 없었다. 수술은 1례를 제외하고는 모두 우심방절개하에 결손부의 일차봉합을 시행하였고, 수술사 망례는 없었다. 그러나 잔존 심실중격 결손이 1례에서 발견되어 술후 6개월에 재수술을 시행하여 완치되었다. 그밖의 환자들에서의 술후 경과는 모두 양호하였다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.57-60
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• 2018

Left main bronchus compression occasionally occurs in patients with cardiac disease. A 19-month-old female patient weighing 6.7 kg was admitted for recurrent pneumonia and desaturation. S he had an atrial septal defect (AS D) with a right aortic arch. Her left main bronchus had been compressed between the enlarged right pulmonary artery (RPA) and the descending thoracic aorta for 14 months. We conducted ASD closure and RPA anterior translocation via sternotomy. The left main bronchus compression was relieved despite the medium-term duration of compression.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제30권10호
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• pp.986-990
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• 1997

23례의 환자에서 1989년 12월부터 1996년 12월까지 우전측방흉부절개술(RALT; right anterolateral thorncotomy)을 이용하여 선천성 심장병을 수술하였다. 22례에서 심방중격결손증(단순난원공형 13례, 하대정맥부 위로 확대된 저위형 쩨, 후방확대형 쎄, 정맥동형 1례, 일차공형 떼)이었고, 떼에서 심실중격결손증이었다. 우전측방흉부절개술(RALI)과 관련된 수술중 사망률이나 후기이환율은 없었다. 우전측방흉부절개술(RALI)은 선택된 환자에서(특히 여자) 정중흉골절개술에 비해 안전하고 효과적인 방법으로 생각되며, 추적관찰시 미용의 측면에서 결과는 매우 좋았다.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제55권8호
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• pp.297-300
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• 2012

Symptomatic pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in patients with isolated atrial septal defect (ASD) is rare during infancy. We report a case of isolated ASD with severe PAH in an infant who developed airway obstruction as cardiomegaly progressed. The patient presented with recurrent severe respiratory insufficiency and failure to thrive before the repair of the ASD. Echocardiography confirmed volume overload on the right side of heart and severe PAH (tricuspid regurgitation [TR] with a peak pressure gradient of 55 to 60 mmHg). The chest radiographs demonstrated severe collapse of both lung fields, and a computed tomography scan showed narrowing of the main bronchus because of an intrinsic cause, as well as a dilated pulmonary artery compressing the main bronchus on the left and the intermediate bronchus on the right. ASD patch closure was performed when the infant was 8 months old. After the repair of the ASD, echocardiography showed improvement of PAH (TR with a peak pressure gradient of 22 to 26 mmHg), and the patient has not developed recurrent respiratory infections while showing successful catch-up growth. In infants with symptomatic isolated ASD, especially in those with respiratory insufficiency associated with severe PAH, extrinsic airway compression should be considered. Correcting any congenital heart diseases in these patients may improve their symptoms.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.252-256
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• 2000

There have been few reports documenting the outcome of arterial swich operations(ASO) in selected patients with transposition of great arteries(TGA) and with left ventricular outflow tract obstruction(LVOTO). In the case of TGA with LVOTO, if the atrial septal defect(ASD) is large and the ventricular septal defect(VSD) is restricive, this deprives the left ventricle(LV) of approporiate preload and could lead to underdevelopment of the ventircular mass and lead poor LV performance after the arterial switch operation, dspite a high pressure in the LV preoperatively. Because an increase in the systolic ventricular pressure is not necessarily paralleled by an increase in ventricular mass, which is also essential for optimal ventricular performance after the operation. We report here a case of rapid LV training after ASO in TGA with unprepared LV (because of large ASD and restrictive VSD) despite a high pressure in the LV(due to LVOTO) preoperatively.