Management and outcomes of right atrial isomerism: A 26-year experience

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1120-1126

  Hashmi, Aijaz ^a   Abu Sulaiman, Riyadh ^a   McCrindle, Brian W ^a   Smallhorn, Jeffrey F ^a   Williams, William G ^a   Freedom, Robert M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; INFANT; ISOMERISM; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE;

FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART ATRIA; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032054307     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00062-X     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Van Mierop LHS, Gessner IH, Schiebler GL. Asplenia and polysplenia syndromes. Birth Defects 1972;8:36-44.
2. Anderson RH. Is isomerism of the atrial appendages a real thing? Cardiol Young 1995;5:207-8.
3. Rose V, Izukawa T, Moes CAF. Syndromes of asplenia and polysplenia: a review of cardiac and non-cardiac malformations in 60 cases with special reference to diagnosis and prognosis. Br Heart J 1975;37:840-52.
4. Van Praagh R, Van Praagh S. Atrial isomerism in the heterotaxy syndromes with asplenia, or polysplenia, or normally formed spleen: an erroneous concept. Am J Cardiol 1990;66:1504-6.
5. Anderson C, Devine WA, Anderson RH, Debich DE, Zuberbuhler JR. Abnormalities of the spleen in relation to congenital malformations of the heart: a survey of necropsy findings in children. Br Heart J 1990;63:122-8.
6. Liberthson RR, Hastreiter AR, Sinha SN, Bharati S, Novak GM, Lev M. Levocardia with visceral heterotaxy - isolated levocardia: pathologic anatomy and its clinical implications. Am Heart J 1973;85:40-54.
7. Ivemark BI. Implications of agenesis of the spleen on the pathogenesis of cono-truncus anomalies in childhood: an analysis of the heart malformations in the splenic agenesis syndrome, with fourteen new cases. Acta Paediatr Scand 1958;44:9-100.
8. Winer-Muram HT, Tonkin ILD. The spectrum of heterotaxic syndromes. Radiol Clin North Am 1989;27:1147-70.
9. Berman W, Yabek SM, Burstein J, Dillon T. Asplenia syndrome with atypical cardiac anomalies. Pediatr Cardiol 1982;3:35-8.
10. Phoon CK, Neill CA. Asplenia syndrome: insight into embryology through an analysis of cardiac and extracardiac anomalies. Am J Cardiol 1994;73: 581-7.
11. Yoo SJ, Nykanen DG, Freedom RM, Benson LN, Moes CAF, Burrows PE. Retrobronchial vertical vein in totally anomalous pulmonary venous connection to the innominate vein and its specific occurrence in right isomerism. Am J Cardiol 1993;71:1198-1203.
12. Freedom RM. Aortic valve and arch anomalies in the congenital asplenia syndrome: case report, literature review, and re-examination of the embryology of the congenital asplenia syndrome. Hopkins Med J 1974;135:124-34.
13. Freedom RM, Olley PM, Coceani F, Rowe RD. The prostaglandin challenge: test to unmask obstructed total anomalous pulmonary venous connections in asplenia syndrome. Br Heart J 1978;40:91-4.
14. Layman TE, Levine MA, Amplatz K, Edwards JE. "Asplenic syndrome" association with rudimentary spleen. Am J Cardiol 1967;20:136-40.
15. Muir CS. Splenic agenesis and multilobulate spleen. Arch Dis Child 1959; 34:431-5.
16. Sharma S, Devine W, Anderson RH, Zuberbuhler JR. The determination of atrial arrangement by examination of appendage morphology in 1842 heart specimens. Br Heart J 1988;60:227-31.
17. Culbertson CB, George BL, Day RW, Laks H, Williams RG. Factors influencing survival of patients with heterotaxy syndrome undergoing the Fontan procedure. J Am Coll Cardiol 1992;20:678-84.
18. Humes RA, Feldt RH, Porter CJ, Julsrud PR, Puga FJ, Danielson GK. The modified Fontan operation for asplenia and polysplenia syndromes. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1988;96:212-8.
19. Okita Y, Miki S, Tamura T, et al. Bidirectional cavopulmonary anastomosis using vertical vein for right isomerism, pulmonary atresia and TAPVR. Ann Thorac Surg 1991;52:544-6.
20. Okita Y, Miki S, Kusuhara K, et al. Annuloplastic reconstruction for common atrioventricular valvular regurgitation in right isomerism. Ann Thorac Surg 1989;47:302-4.
21. Freedom RM, Fellows KE. Radiographic visceral patterns in the asplenia syndrome. Radiology 1973;106:387-91.
22. Elliot LP, Cramer GG, Amplatz K. The anomalous relationship of the inferior vena cava and abdominal aorta as a specific angiocardiographic sign in asplenia. Radiology 1966;87:859-63.
23. Huhta JC, Smallhorn JF, Macartney FJ. Two-dimensional echocardiographic diagnosis of situs. Br Heart J 1982;48:97-108.
24. Smallhorn JF, Burrows P, Wilson G, Coles J, Gilday DL, Freedom RM. Two-dimensional and pulsed Doppler echocardiography in the postoperative evaluation of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection. Circulation 1987;76:298-305.
25. Smallhorn JF, Pauperio H, Benson L, Freedom RM, Rowe RD. Pulsed Doppler assessment of pulmonary vein obstruction. Am Heart J 1985;110: 483-5.
26. Smallhorn JF, Freedom RM, Olley PM. Pulsed Doppler echocardiographic assessment of extraparenchymal pulmonary vein flow. J Am Coll Cardiol 1987;9:573-9.
27. Freedom RM. The asplenia syndrome: a review of significant extracardiac structural abnormalities in 29 necropsied patients. J Pediatr 1972;81:1130-3.
28. Sadiq M, Stumper O, De Giovanni JV, et al. Management and outcome of infants and children with right atrial isomerism. Heart 1996;75:314-9.
29. Di Donate R, di Carlo D, Squitieri C, et al. Palliation of cardiac malformations associated with right isomerism (asplenia syndrome) in infancy. Ann Thorac Surg 1987;44:35-9.
30. Phoon CK, Neill CA. Asplenia syndrome - risk factors for early unfavorable outcome. Am J Cardiol 1994;73:1235-7.
31. Jenkins KJ, Sanders SP, Orav EJ, Coleman EA, Mayer JE, Colan SD. Individual pulmonary vein size and survival in infants with totally anomalous pulmonary venous connection. J Am Coll Cardiol 1993;22:201-6.
32. Cetta F, Feldt RH, O'Leary PW, et al. Improved early morbidity and mortality after Fontan operation: the Mayo Clinic experience, 1987 to 1992. J Am Coll Cardiol 1996;28:480-6.
33. Larsen R, Eguchi J, Vander Dussen L, et al. Heart transplantation in children with visceral heterotaxy and complex congenital heart disease [abstract]. J Am Coll Cardiol 1997;29 Suppl A:105.