Abstract
Anomalous right coronary artery from pulmonary artery (ARCAPA) is a rare congenital heart disease that can lead to abnormal coronary perfusion and a need for surgical repair. Here, we report the outcomes of patients who underwent ARCAPA surgery within the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium (PCCC), a North American registry of interventions for paediatric heart diseases. We queried the PCCC for patients undergoing surgical repair for ARCAPA at <18 years of age between 1982 and 2003. Outcomes were obtained from the PCCC and after linkage with the National Death Index (NDI) and the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) through 2019. Twenty-four patients (males: 15) were identified having surgery for ARCAPA at a median age of 5.8 (IQR 2.7-10.3) years. Of them, 23 cases were considered simple (without major intracardiac disease) and one complex (co-existing with tetralogy of Fallot). Five patients presented with symptoms [chest pain (1), dyspnoea on exertion (2) or history of syncope (2)]; while the remaining 19 patients were referred for evaluation of either murmur or co-existing CHD. There was no in-hospital mortality after the surgical repair. Fourteen patients had sufficient identifiers for NDI/OPTN linkage; among them, only one death occurred from unrelated non-cardiac causes within a median period of 19.4 years of follow-up (IQR: 18-24.6). Outcomes were excellent after reimplantation up to 25 years later and further longitudinal monitoring is important to understand the interaction of pre-existing coronary pathology with the effects of ageing.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 96-100 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Cardiology in the young |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 18 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The study is supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01 HL122392) and the Department of Defense (PR180683).
Funding Information:
We queried the PCCC registry for patients operated for ARCAPA at <18 years of age. The PCCC collected data from 47 centres in North America between 1982 and 2011, when it stopped enrolling new patients. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Emory University and by the National Death Index (NDI) and the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). The registry is supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute R01 HL122392 and the Department of Defense (PR180683) grants.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press.
Keywords
- Congenital
- anomalous right coronary artery from the pulmonary artery
- cardiology
- paediatrics