CONGENITAL HEART SURGERY: Patients With Systemic Right Ventricle Are at Higher Risk of Chylothorax After Cavopulmonary Connections

CONGENITAL HEART SURGERY: Patients With Systemic Right Ventricle Are at Higher Risk of Chylothorax After Cavopulmonary Connections is organized by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS).

Release Date: Nov 01, 2018
Expiry Date: Nov 01, 2020

Accreditation: 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™

Description:
Each STS CME activity in The Annals consists of a self-study test on an original article from one of the journal's major subject categories (Adult Cardiac Surgery, General Thoracic Surgery, Congenital Heart Surgery, and Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology), a statement of the learning objectives and an evaluation of the activity.

Learning Objective:
After reading this article, the learner should be able to:
• recognize that the incidence of chylothorax after a superior cavopulmonary connection in this paper was 15.6%, and was 24.3% after a Fontan completion.
• recognize that there is an association of chylothorax with early reoperation, late death, and late failure of the cavopulmonary circulation.
• discover that a systemic right ventricle is the only identifiable risk factor for chylothorax in single ventricle patients by multivariate analysis.
• recognize that the development of a chylothorax after a superior cavopulmonary connection does not predict the development of a chylothorax with Fontan completion in this paper.