Anita J Moon-Grady1, Shaine A Morris2, Michael Belfort2, Ramen Chmait3, Joanna Dangel4, Roland Devlieger5, Stephen Emery6, Michele Frommelt7, Alberto Galindo8, Sarah Gelehrter9, Ulrich Gembruch10, Sofia Grinenco11, Mounira Habli12, Ulrike Herberg13, Edgar Jaeggi14, Mark Kilby15, Eftichia Kontopoulos16, Pablo Marantz11, Owen Miller17, Lucas Otaño11, Carlos Pedra18, Simone Pedra18, Jay Pruetz19, Ruben Quintero20, Greg Ryan21, Gurleen Sharland17, John Simpson17, Emanuel Vlastos22, Wayne Tworetzky23, Louise Wilkins-Haug24, Dick Oepkes25. 1. University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Electronic address: anita.moongrady@ucsf.edu. 2. Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. 3. Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. 4. Perinatal Cardiology Clinic, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. 5. University Hospital, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. 6. Magee Women's Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 7. Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 8. Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. 9. C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 10. University Clinics of Bonn, Bonn, Germany. 11. Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 12. Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio. 13. University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany. 14. Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 15. University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom. 16. Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida. 17. Evelina London Children's Hospital, London, United Kingdom. 18. Hospital do Coração, São Paulo, Brazil. 19. Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California. 20. University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida. 21. Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 22. SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri. 23. Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. 24. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. 25. Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Invasive fetal cardiac intervention (FCI) has been reported in single-institution series, promoting technical and physiologic success. OBJECTIVES: This study describes the creation of an international registry of cases presenting for FCI, intended to compile technical and outcome data from a multicenter cohort. METHODS: For this initial analysis, the entire database of the International Fetal Cardiac Intervention Registry (IFCIR) was queried for details of diagnoses, procedures, and outcomes. Maternal-fetal dyads from January 2001 through June 2014 were included. RESULTS: Eighteen institutions submitted data by data harvest. Of 370 cases entered, 245 underwent FCI: 100 aortic valvuloplasties from a previous single-center report (excluded from additional reporting here), an additional 86 aortic and 16 pulmonary valvuloplasties, 37 atrial septal cases, and 6 unclassified cases. FCI did not appear to affect overall survival to hospital discharge. Among live-born infants with a fetal diagnosis of aortic stenosis/evolving hypoplastic left heart syndrome, more than twice as many were discharged with biventricular circulation after successful FCI versus those meeting institutional criteria but without any or successful FCI (42.8% vs. 19.4%, respectively). When fetal deaths were counted as treatment failures, the percentages were similar: biventricular circulation at discharge was 31.3% versus 18.5% for those discharged with univentricular palliation. Survival to discharge for live-born fetuses with atrial restriction was similar to that of those undergoing technically successful versus unsuccessful FCI (63.6% vs. 46.7%, respectively), although criteria for diagnosis were nonuniform. CONCLUSIONS: We describe the contents of the IFCIR and present post-natal data to suggest potential benefit to fetal therapy among pregnancies considered for possible intervention and support proposals for additional work.
BACKGROUND: Invasive fetal cardiac intervention (FCI) has been reported in single-institution series, promoting technical and physiologic success. OBJECTIVES: This study describes the creation of an international registry of cases presenting for FCI, intended to compile technical and outcome data from a multicenter cohort. METHODS: For this initial analysis, the entire database of the International Fetal Cardiac Intervention Registry (IFCIR) was queried for details of diagnoses, procedures, and outcomes. Maternal-fetal dyads from January 2001 through June 2014 were included. RESULTS: Eighteen institutions submitted data by data harvest. Of 370 cases entered, 245 underwent FCI: 100 aortic valvuloplasties from a previous single-center report (excluded from additional reporting here), an additional 86 aortic and 16 pulmonary valvuloplasties, 37 atrial septal cases, and 6 unclassified cases. FCI did not appear to affect overall survival to hospital discharge. Among live-born infants with a fetal diagnosis of aortic stenosis/evolving hypoplastic left heart syndrome, more than twice as many were discharged with biventricular circulation after successful FCI versus those meeting institutional criteria but without any or successful FCI (42.8% vs. 19.4%, respectively). When fetal deaths were counted as treatment failures, the percentages were similar: biventricular circulation at discharge was 31.3% versus 18.5% for those discharged with univentricular palliation. Survival to discharge for live-born fetuses with atrial restriction was similar to that of those undergoing technically successful versus unsuccessful FCI (63.6% vs. 46.7%, respectively), although criteria for diagnosis were nonuniform. CONCLUSIONS: We describe the contents of the IFCIR and present post-natal data to suggest potential benefit to fetal therapy among pregnancies considered for possible intervention and support proposals for additional work.
Authors: Anita J Moon-Grady; Ahmet Baschat; Darrell Cass; Mahesh Choolani; Joshua A Copel; Timothy M Crombleholme; Jan Deprest; Stephen P Emery; Mark I Evans; Francois I Luks; Mary E Norton; Greg Ryan; Kuojen Tsao; Ross Welch; Michael Harrison Journal: Fetal Diagn Ther Date: 2017-05-23 Impact factor: 2.587
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