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The Effect of Posterior Annulus Elevation Technique in Reducing Residual Regurgitation During Mitral Valve Repair in Children

The Effect of Posterior Annulus Elevation Technique in Reducing Residual Regurgitation During Mitral Valve Repair in Children

Status
UNKNOWN
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT04518709
Enrollment
58
Registered
2020-08-19
Start date
2020-08-17
Completion date
2022-08-17
Last updated
2020-08-19

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Mitral Valve Insufficiency

Keywords

Posterior Annulus Elevation Technique, Pediatric Mitral Valve Insufficiency

Brief summary

The main problem in mitral valve repair surgery in children is the high number of postoperative residual lesions (49% of the total cases). Residual lesions after mitral valve repair are associated with morbidity and complications in the form of hemolysis and could affect the postoperative reverse remodeling process. Surgery techniques for mitral valve repair in children have fewer choices than adult patients because of the smaller and thinner valve structure. Besides, the weakness of the mitral valve repair technique that often occurs in large left ventricles with severe mitral regurgitation, after repairing with ring annuloplasty, there is usually a mild residual regurgitation due to posterior mitral leaflet that tends to become restrictive due to being attracted by the left ventricular wall that remains big. No technique has been found to overcome the problem of mitral regurgitation residuals that occur postoperatively. Therefore, by analyzing postoperative mitral valve structural abnormalities with conventional techniques, an additional posterior mitral valve elevation technique was designed to increase the area of coaptation between two leaves of the mitral valve so that the incidence of postoperative regurgitation lesions can be reduced.

Detailed description

The main problem in mitral valve repair surgery in children is the high number of postoperative residual lesions (49% of the total cases). Residual lesions after mitral valve repair are associated with morbidity and complications in the form of hemolysis and could affect the postoperative reverse remodeling process. Surgery techniques for mitral valve repair in children have fewer choices than adult patients because of the smaller and thinner valve structure. Besides, the weakness of the mitral valve repair technique that often occurs in large left ventricles with severe mitral regurgitation, after repairing with ring annuloplasty, there is usually a mild residual regurgitation due to posterior mitral leaflet that tends to become restrictive due to being attracted by the left ventricular wall that remains big. No technique has been found to overcome the problem of mitral regurgitation residuals that occur postoperatively. Therefore, by analyzing postoperative mitral valve structural abnormalities with conventional techniques, an additional posterior mitral valve elevation technique was designed. The posterior annulus elevation technique is a technique that is carried by lifting the posterior mitral annulus towards the cranial so that the posterior mitral leaflet can meet perfectly with the anterior mitral leaflet indicated by a larger coaptation area. This technique can be applied after repair with conventional techniques done optimally to reduce the possibility of postoperative residual lesions. The hypothesis in this study is that pediatric patients with mitral regurgitation who undergo mitral valve repair surgery with posterior annulus elevation techniques can reduce residual mitral regurgitation, improve clinical and metabolic outcomes of postoperative heart failure, and reduce the risk of postoperative hemolysis.

Interventions

PROCEDUREPosterior Mitral Annulus Elevation Technique

Posterior mitral annulus elevation technique is performed using a large pledget and non-absorbable braided suture starting from the subvalvular section of the posterior mitral valve sutured to the ring annuloplasty (if in the process of repairing the mitral valve, ring implantation is performed; if without the use of ring annuloplasty, the suture is placed in the left atrial wall / supravalvular of PML), so that the posterior annulus is slightly attracted upward toward the cranial and the PML moves toward the center.

Conventional mitral valve repair in the pediatric patient using annuloplasty, leaflet resection and plication, sliding-plasty of chordae technique

Sponsors

National Cardiovascular Center Harapan Kita Hospital Indonesia
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
1 Months to 18 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

1. Patients with mitral regurgitation heart disease. 2. Patients with an age range of 1 day - 18 years 3. Patients with mitral regurgitation heart disease with atrial septal defects 4. Mitral valve repair surgery performed by single surgeon (Budi Rahmat, MD)

Exclusion criteria

1. Patients refuse to participate in the study. 2. Having additional cardiac abnormalities other than atrial septal defects that change the surgery plan. 3. Reoperation mitral valve surgery. 4. History of abnormalities in the central nervous system / preoperative stroke. 5. Patients with severe pulmonary hypertension 6. Patients with small left ventricles (LV smallish) 7. History of pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) before surgery. Dropout Criteria 1. The patient fails to complete the entire examination procedure. 2. Mitral regurgitation patients who are decided to do mitral valve replacement intra-operatively. 3. Using extracorporeal life support (ECMO) device after surgery. 4. History of intra-operative CPR.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Residual mitral valve regurgitation5 days after surgeryResidual mitral valve regurgitation is measured using transesophageal echocardiography and transthoracic echocardiography
Mitral valve coaptation areaIntraoperativeMitral valve coaptation area is measured using transesophageal echocardiography and transthoracic echocardiography
Change of Haptoglobin at 3 months after surgeryPreoperative (baseline), 5 days, 2 weeks and 3 months after surgerySerum haptoglobin level that indicated the presence of intravascular hemolysis is measured after the surgery
Change of Lactate dehydrogenase at 3 months after surgeryPreoperative (baseline), 5 days, 2 weeks and 3 months after surgeryLactate dehydrogenase level that indicated the presence of intravascular hemolysis is measured after the surgery
Change of NT-proBNP at 3 months after surgeryPreoperative (baseline), 5 days, 2 weeks and 3 months after surgeryNTproBNP is a marker of acute heart failure and indicates the process of heart remodeling.

Contacts

Primary ContactBudi Rahmat, MD
budirahmat@gmail.com+628128800076

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026