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Outcome analysis after surgical or interventional correction of an aortic coarctation in infants

Recruiting
Conditions
Q25.1
Coarctation of aorta
Registration Number
DRKS00028157
Lead Sponsor
Päd. Kardiologie und Intensivmedizin, OE6730,Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Recruiting
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
150
Inclusion Criteria

Age <12 months old
-The patients should have received both echos we plan to analyze and the their therapy at our institution.

Exclusion Criteria

Complex congenital heart defects such as:
Atrial Septal Defect
Atrioventricular Septal Defect
Double-outlet Right Ventricle
d-Transposition of the Great Arteries
Ebstein Anomaly
Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Pulmonary Atresia
Single Ventricle
Tetralogy of Fallot
Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return
Tricuspid Atresia
Truncus Arteriosus
Ventricular Septal Defect

These defects would make the speckle tracking analysis impossible to perform. Furthermore they are often simultaniously surgically repaired, thus not allowing us to study isolated effects of the coarctation correction.

-> Should we have enough* neonates (<30 days old) with isolated aortic coartcation we would like to mostly focus on them, since this is the most typical and most critical in terms of complications and clinical manifestation.

* we defined enough as a number of patients that would allow us to also perforn statistical analysis on the collected data. After a power calculation we came up with a number of min.20 patients: at least 10 Patients per group.

Study & Design

Study Type
observational
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
longitudinal, radial and circumferential left-ventricular strain and longitudinal right-ventricular strain
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
advanced echocardiographic parameters such as: LVEF, FAC, different diameters and wall thicknesses and different velocities measured at different segments of the aorta etc.
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