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Transoesophageal echocardiography in monitoring, guiding, and evaluating surgical repair of congenital cardiac malformations in children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2007

Xiao-Jing Ma ,
Guo-Ying Huang ,
Xue-Cun Liang ,
Zhang-Gen Chen ,
Bing Jia ,
Xin Li  and
Ming Ye
Xiao-Jing Ma
Affiliation:
Paediatric Heart Center, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Department of Paediatrics, Shanghai Medical School, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Guo-Ying Huang
Affiliation:
Paediatric Heart Center, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Department of Paediatrics, Shanghai Medical School, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Xue-Cun Liang
Affiliation:
Paediatric Heart Center, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Department of Paediatrics, Shanghai Medical School, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Zhang-Gen Chen
Affiliation:
Paediatric Heart Center, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Department of Paediatrics, Shanghai Medical School, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Bing Jia
Affiliation:
Paediatric Heart Center, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Department of Paediatrics, Shanghai Medical School, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Xin Li
Affiliation:
Paediatric Heart Center, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Department of Paediatrics, Shanghai Medical School, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Ming Ye
Affiliation:
Paediatric Heart Center, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Department of Paediatrics, Shanghai Medical School, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the role of transoesophageal echocardiography and problems related to safety during the surgical repair of congenital cardiac malformations in children. Methods: We examined the transoesophageal recordings made in 350 children with congenital cardiac diseases, aged from 2 months to 17 years and 9 months, with a median age of 2.7 years, tracings having been taken both before and after cardiopulmonary bypass. All patients had been scanned by transthoracic echocardiography before the operative procedures. Results: Preoperative transoesophageal echocardiography added additional findings, or changed the diagnoses made using transthoracic echocardiography, in 33 cases (9.4%), among which the findings had therapeutic significance in 23 cases (6.6%) that altered the planned surgical procedures. Residual problems or sequels were detected by postoperative transoesophageal echocardiography in 57 cases (16.3%), with 13 patients (3.7%) requiring instant intervention or return to bypass for modifications of the surgical procedures. We encountered no severe complications due to the performance of transoesophageal echocardiography. Mild complications occurred in only 2 patients (0.6%). Conclusions: Transoesophageal echocardiography is a useful tool with which to determine the strategies for treatment in the perioperative period, and to improve the quality of surgical procedures in children with congenital cardiac diseases. Complications were few, but still deserved careful attention to detail.

Keywords

Congenital heart diseaseperioperative periodpaediatrics
Type
Original Article
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , June 2007 , pp. 301 - 306
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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