Outcomes of Mechanical Mitral Valve Replacement in Children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mitral valve anomalies in children are rare but frequently severe, recalcitrant, and not often amenable to primary repair, necessitating mechanical mitral valve replacement (M-MVR). This study examined outcomes of a cohort undergoing a first M-MVR at age younger than 21 years.

Methods

We queried the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium, a multi-institutional United States-based cardiac intervention registry, for patients undergoing first M-MVR for 2-ventricle congenital heart disease. Survival and transplant status through 2014 were obtained from Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium and linkage with the National Death Index and the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.

Results

We identified 441 patients (median age, 4.3 years; interquartile range, 1.3 to

SUBMITTER: Ibezim C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7288372 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature