Why the study?
Does right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction with bicuspidalized homografts provide similar freedom from re-intervention compared to standard homografts in infants under 1 year of age?
Population
40 consecutive infants under the age of 1 year who underwent a surgical procedure in which a homograft was…
Comparison
Bicuspidalized homograft (n=20) vs Standard homograft (n=20)
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
Median 146 months and 95 months
Authors
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Bicuspidalized homografts may serve as alternative in infants; leaves open need for randomized confirmation of equivalence.
Does right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction with bicuspidalized homografts provide similar freedom from re-intervention compared to standard homografts in infants under 1 year of age?
Bicuspidalized homografts provide an acceptable alternative to standard homografts for RV-PA reconstruction in infants, demonstrating similar long-term freedom from re-intervention and echocardiographic hemodynamics.
Bramer et al. (2011) studied this question.
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