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Follow-up of surgical correction of vascular anomalies causing tracheobronchial compression.
Pediatric Cardiology 1994 March
Between January 1977 and January 1990, 44 patients with symptomatic vascular rings/slings required surgical intervention at this center. Nineteen patients had double aortic arch (group I); 13 patients had vascular ring consisting of right aortic arch, anomalous origin of the left subclavian artery, and ligamentum arteriosus (group II); eight patients had innominate artery compression (group III); and four patients had pulmonary artery sling (group IV). Three patients had complex congenital heart defect and died secondary to it and are excluded from the study. Follow-up was obtained on 31 patients (76%). The follow-up period ranged from 0.4 years to 10.9 years, with a mean of 3.6 years. Seventy percent of the overall group were asymptomatic, and 30% of patients continued to have upper and lower respiratory symptoms on late follow-up. One third of patients in groups I and II, who underwent surgical repair, continue to have symptoms. Patients who have persistent symptoms should be further evaluated with PFTs, MRI, and bronchoscopy, and may benefit from aortopexy. Patients with innominate artery compression and pulmonary artery sling do well soon after surgery with relief of most of their symptoms.
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