USE OF RIGHT ATRIAL APPENDAGE FOR PULMONARY VALVE RECONSTRUCTION IN TETRALOGY OF FALLOT REPAIR: A SINGLE-CENTER STUDY
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Preventing postoperative pulmonary regurgitation (PR) is critical for favorable outcomes following Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) repair. The right atrial appendage (RAA) valve for right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) reconstruction is a novel technique that offers a promising alternative when the native pulmonary valve cannot be preserved. This cross-sectional study evaluated the use of the RAA valve in 102 consecutive patients who underwent TOF repair at our institution between December 2023 and May 2025. The mean age was 6.5 years (range: 4 months–32 years). There were four deaths, none attributed to RAA valve use. Early postoperative echocardiography revealed trivial or no PR in 61 patients, mild PR in 33, and moderate PR in 8, with no severe PR. None developed significant RVOT obstruction. The mean tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE) was 14 mm. The average cardiopulmonary bypass and aortic cross-clamp times were 98 and 78 minutes, respectively. Postoperative complications included two re-openings for bleeding or tamponade, three strokes, six reintubations, five cases of renal dysfunction (one requiring dialysis), one heart block not requiring pacemaker, and one superficial wound infection. Overall, RAA valve reconstruction appears feasible, safe, and effective in reducing early PR, with encouraging short-term outcomes. Longer follow-up is warranted to assess durability and its role in delaying pulmonary valve replacement.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.016 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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