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Isolated torrential tricuspid regurgitation and porcelain aorta due to mediastinal radiation therapy. Challenging surgical treatment
Insuficiencia tricúspide torrencial aislada y aorta en porcelana debido a radiación mediastinal. Tratamiento quirúrgico desafiante
Josías C. Ríos-Ortega
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, Freddy E. Paredes-Acevedo, Pedro I. Rojas-Sánchez
EsSalud, Nacional Cardiovascular Institute, Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Lima, Peru
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which received chemotherapy and several sessions of MRT&#46; 13 years ago a dual-chamber pacemaker was placed due to CHB and 11 years ago a pericardial window was performed due to severe pericardial effusion&#46; Subsequently&#44; the patient had recurrent hospitalizations for dyspnoea&#44; ascites&#44; and pleural effusion&#46;</p><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">When he was admitted in our hospital reported NYHA III dyspnoea despite treatment with furosemide 120<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mg and spironolactone 50<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mg daily&#46; Physical examination showed &#43;&#43;&#43;&#47;&#43;&#43;&#43; oedema in the lower limbs&#44; III&#47;VI Systolic murmur at tricuspid focus&#44; decreased vesicular murmur at the bases of both hemithorax&#46; Examination of the abdomen showed the edge of the liver 5<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>cm below the costal margin and shifting dullness&#44; however transaminase and bilirubin levels were normal&#46; Transthoracic echocardiography &#40;TTE&#41; &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>C and D&#41; showed massive TR &#40;annulus diameter&#58; 32<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mm&#44; 19<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mm&#47;m<span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span>&#41; and mild aortic regurgitation&#44; left ventricular ejection fraction was normal &#40;60&#37;&#41;&#44; right ventricular outflow tract fractional shortening was 48&#37;&#46; Transesophageal echocardiography &#40;TEE&#41; confirmed a torrential primary TR due to restriction of movement of the anterior and posterior leaflets and interference of the pacemaker lead with movement of the septal&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Computed tomography &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>A&#44; B&#41; revealed a severe calcification involving ascending&#44; arch and descending aorta &#40;porcelain aorta&#41;&#46; Coronary angiotomography showed coronary calcifications without severe lesions&#46;</p><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">After an analysis in the heart team&#44; surgical treatment was decided&#46; The surgical plan included peripheral cannulation for cardiopulmonary bypass &#40;CPB&#41;&#44; tricuspid valve repair or replacement without aortic cross-clamping&#44; and removal of endocardial pacemaker leads and implantation of a dual-chamber epicardial pacemaker&#46;</p><span id="sec0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0035">Surgical findings</span><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Fibrous pericardium was adhered firmly to the entire epicardial surface&#44; mainly in right atrium and cardiac pedicle &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>E&#41;&#46; Ascending aorta had severe calcifications in all its walls&#46; The right atrial wall was thickened and fibrotic&#46; We found the anterior and posterior tricuspid leaflets thickened and retracted &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>F&#41; and the ventricular pacemaker lead adhered to septal leaflet&#44; these two mechanism caused TR&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0040">Surgical technique</span><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We performed the surgery by total median sternotomy&#46; The rights femoral artery and vein and superior vena cava were cannulated to enter vacuum-assisted CPB without aortic cross clamping &#40;beating heart&#41; in normothermia&#46; Superior and inferior vena cava were not snared due to severe pericardial adhesions&#46; After a right longitudinal atriotomy&#44; the endocardial leads were removed&#46; The anterior leaflet and the anterior third of the posterior leaflet were detached from their annular attachment&#44; then we performed leaflets augmentation with bovine pericardium using polypropylene 4&#47;0 &#40;the diameter of the patch was the distance between the anteroseptal commissure and to the end where the posterior veil was detached and its height was the greatest distance between the detached leaflet and the annulus&#41;&#44; finally we placed a semi rigid annuloplasty ring &#40;30<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mm&#41; &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0010">Fig&#46; 2</a>A&#8211;C&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0010"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="sec0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0045">Follow up</span><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The patient was disconnected from the mechanical ventilator 8<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>h after surgery&#59; however&#44; he required inotropic support for 5 days due to right ventricular dysfunction&#46; Postoperative TEE showed mild TR &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0010">Fig&#46; 2</a>D&#41; at discharge &#40;14 days after surgery&#41;&#46; After 6 months follow up&#44; patient is in NYHA functional class II and therapy included furosemide 40<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mg and spironolactone 25<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mg daily&#46;</p></span></span><span id="sec0030" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0050">Discussion</span><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Like in our patient&#44; MRT improves cancer survival but increases the risk of developing radiation-induced HVD&#46; The most important factor for developing HVD is the total dose delivered to the heart valves &#40;HVD has been reported to occur in 81&#37; of patients receiving more than 35<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>Gy to the heart&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1&#44;2</span></a> The precise pathophysiological mechanisms of radiation-induced HVD are not fully understood&#44; radiation causes damage to the interstitial cells of the valves and activation of the inflammatory cascade which releases pro-fibrotic cytokines&#44; these mechanisms induce fibrosis and calcification of the valve apparatus&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1&#44;3&#44;4</span></a> On the other hand&#44; myocardial fibrosis and vascular involvement can contribute to ventricular remodelling and&#44; consequently&#44; further impair valve function&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a></p><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In the vasculature&#44; ionizing radiation causes direct endothelial oxidative damage and induces the release of inflammatory cytokines&#44; these mechanisms cause inflammation&#44; cell death&#44; atherosclerosis with parenchymal damage&#44; and fibrosis&#46; Coronary artery disease can occur within a year or two after doses above 30&#8211;35<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>Gy&#46; At lower doses&#44; the latency period is much longer &#40;more than a ten years&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0080"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> MRT increases the risk of presenting major cardiovascular events &#40;myocardial infarction&#44; stroke&#44; etc&#46;&#41; and these patients are often younger than those with typical atherosclerotic&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0080"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a></p><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A retrospective analysis of 261 consecutive patients with prior MRT who underwent valvular operations found a higher operative mortality than predicted by STS risk of mortality &#40;hazard ratio&#44; 2&#46;24 for primary surgeries&#41;&#46; Aortic stenosis was the most common obstructive HVD &#40;more than 50&#37; of surgical indications&#41; followed by mitral stenosis&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0085"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a> TR is the most common right-sided valvular lesion &#40;20&#46;4&#37;&#41;&#44; 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