Volume 56, Issue 4 pp. 630-633
Brief Report

Experience of decortication for restrictive hemodynamics in adults with congenital heart disease

Masanori Mizuno

Masanori Mizuno

Department of Pediatric Cardiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan

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Hideo Ohuchi

Corresponding Author

Hideo Ohuchi

Department of Pediatric Cardiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan

Correspondence: Hideo Ohuchi, MD PhD, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, 5-7-1, Fujishiro-dai, Suita, Osaka 565-8565, Japan. Email. [email protected]Search for more papers by this author
Koji Kagisaki

Koji Kagisaki

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan

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Aya Miyazaki

Aya Miyazaki

Department of Pediatric Cardiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan

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Hatsue Ishibashi-Ueda

Hatsue Ishibashi-Ueda

Department of Pathology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan

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Osamu Yamada

Osamu Yamada

Department of Pediatric Cardiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan

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First published: 24 September 2014
Citations: 4

Abstract

We treated four postoperative adults with congenital heart disease with severe restrictive hemodynamics (RH), and performed decortication (DC) with the anticipation of some relief of the RH. The catheterizations before DC showed high central venous, and right and left ventricular end-diastolic pressures with “dip-and-plateau” pressure waveforms in the right and left ventricles. Upon myocardial histopathologic examination, moderate myocardial fibrotic change was demonstrated in two of three cases. DC led to decrease in type B natriuretic peptide levels in all cases, resulting in a decline in the central venous, right and left ventricular end-diastolic pressures in three cases. Successful DC-related relief of RH, dilatation of the ventricles with decline in central and end-diastolic pressures, was observed in only one case. Our limited DC-related hemodynamic improvement indicates a complexity of the severe RH, which may represent a unique intractable heart failure pathophysiology in intractable postoperative adult congenital heart disease.

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