Why the study?
Fetal aortic valvuloplasty (FAV) is performed in severe mid-gestation aortic stenosis to prevent hypoplastic left heart syndrome, but the effect of technical aspects on procedural risks and pregnancy outcomes required evaluation.
Population
108 fetuses with an attempted cardiac puncture for FAV
Comparison
Technical aspects of FAV (such as cannula size and number of punctures)
Design
Registry-based retrospective cohort study
Authors
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Technical success and later gestational age were associated with higher live birth odds; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective trials before practice change.
Fetal aortic valvuloplasty is a high-risk procedure where technical success and later gestational age at intervention significantly increase the odds of live birth, though multiple cardiac punctures increase complication rates.
Patel et al. (2020) studied this question.
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