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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2023

Long-Term Postnatal Follow-Up in Monochorionic TTTS Twin Pregnancies Treated with Fetoscopic Laser Surgery and Complicated by Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Anomalies.

Stefano Faiola, Maria Mandalari, Chiara Coco, Daniela Casati, Arianna Laoreti, Savina Mannarino, Carla Corti, Dario Consonni, Irene Cetin, Mariano Lanna

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Stefano FaiolaFetal Therapy Unit 'Umberto Nicolini', Buzzi Children's Hospital, 20154 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5537-7145
Maria MandalariDepartment of Woman, Mother and Neonate, Buzzi Children's Hospital, 20154 Milan, Italy.
Chiara CocoDepartment of Woman, Mother and Neonate, Buzzi Children's Hospital, 20154 Milan, Italy.
Daniela CasatiFetal Therapy Unit 'Umberto Nicolini', Buzzi Children's Hospital, 20154 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8856-442X
Arianna LaoretiFetal Therapy Unit 'Umberto Nicolini', Buzzi Children's Hospital, 20154 Milan, Italy.
Savina MannarinoPediatric Cardiology Unit, Buzzi Children's Hospital, 20154 Milan, Italy.
Carla CortiPediatric Cardiology Unit, Buzzi Children's Hospital, 20154 Milan, Italy.
Dario ConsonniEpidemiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, 20122 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8935-3843
Irene CetinDepartment of Woman, Mother and Neonate, Buzzi Children's Hospital, 20154 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9217-3034
Mariano LannaFetal Therapy Unit 'Umberto Nicolini', Buzzi Children's Hospital, 20154 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0765-1298
Ospedale dei Bambini Vittore Buzzi · ITFondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico · IT

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Abstract

Right ventricular outflow tract anomalies (RVOTAs), such as pulmonary stenosis (PS), pulmonary atresia (PA), and pulmonary insufficiency (PI), are typical cardiac anomalies in monochorionic twins, and they are complicated by twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS). The aim of this study was to conduct a long-term postnatal cardiological evaluation of prenatal RVOTAs in monochorionic diamniotic twin pregnancies complicated by TTTS and treated with fetoscopic laser surgery (FLS) and to analyze possible prenatal predictors of congenital heart disease (CHD). Prenatal RVOTAs were retrospectively retrieved from all TTTS cases treated with FLS in our unit between 2009 and 2019. Twenty-eight prenatal cases of RVOTAs (16 PI, 10 PS, 2 PA) were observed out of 335 cases of TTTS. Four cases did not reach the postnatal period. CHD was present in 17 of the remaining 24 cases (70.8%), with 10 being severe (58.8%; 10/17); nine cases of PS required balloon valvuloplasty, and one case required biventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy. The risk of major CHD increased with prenatal evidence of PS and decreased with the gestational age at the time of TTTS and with the prenatal normalization of blood flow across the pulmonary valve. Despite treatment with FLS, the majority of monochorionic diamniotic twin pregnancies complicated by TTTS with prenatal RVOTAs had CHD at long-term follow-up.

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CHDfetoscopic laser surgerymonochorionic twinprenatal RVOTATTTS

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PMID37510848
PMCPMC10381265
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