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Abstract
The primary aim of this study was to determine the predictive value of prenatal ultrasound and echocardiography for
prognosis in congenital heart disease (CHD) with coexisting diaphragmatic hernia (DH) in a tertiary care center. Eleven
records from the database of the Department for Diagnoses and Prevention of Congenital Malformations, Polish Mother’s
Memorial Hospital Research Institute, were reviewed. The mean maternal age was 29,2 ± 5,1 years, and the mean
gestational age at the time of diagnosis was 28,4 ± 6,7 weeks. No information was available for children discharged from
hospital. Data of eight cases of prenatal DH and complex heart disease from the literature were also analyzed. Three fetuses
survived the neonatal period. In each of these, CHD was other than the urgent or critical type, defined as not requiring
cardiac surgical intervention in the first day or month of life. Both sets of data collected from our center and the published
literature confirmed the unfavorable prognosis for fetuses with severe or critical CHD with coexisting DH.
Key words:
Diaphragmatic hernia, complex congenital heart defect, prenatal diagnosis
INTRODUCTION
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia is a severe pathology
leading to pulmonary hypoplasia
and pulmonary hypertension.
Respiratory distress is conside-
red as the major cause of death
in neonates suffering from CDH.
Coexisting CDH and
congenital heart disease
increase the risk of serious
complications and neonate’s
demise.
In the present report, we
posed the question: is prenatal
diagnosis using ultrasound adequate to predict the
prognosis of congenital heart defects (CHD) with coexisting
diaphragmatic hernia (DH)?
MATERIALS AND METHODS
In the database from our unit (Filemaker Pro), all
cases occurring between January 2007 and July 2014
and satisfying the following criteria were reviewed:
POSTNATAL OUTCOMES OF CHILDREN WITH PRENATALLY DIAGNOSED
CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE COMBINED WITH CONGENITAL
DIAPHRAGMATIC HERNIA
Original
report
Authors:
Katarzyna Więckowska
1
, Lech Dudarewicz
2
, Hanna Moczulska
3
, Maciej Słodki
3
,Zbigniew Pietrzak
4
,
Maria Respondek-Liberska
3,5
1
Student’s Prenatal Cardiology Team, Medical University of Łódź,
2
Department of Genetics, Research Hospital Polish Mother’s Memorial
Hospital,
3
Department of Fetal Cardiology Research Hospital Polish Mother’s Memorial Hospital,
4
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Reasearch Hospital Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital,
5
Department of Diagnoses and Prevention of Fetal Malformations Medical University
of Łódź
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DOI 10.12847/12143
Corresponding author: Maria Respondek-Liberska, majkares@uni.lodz.pl
Submitted: 2014-07-27; accepted: 2014-11-19
diaphragmatic hernia and complex heart disease in
singleton pregnancy and prenatal diagnosis, established
at the Department of Diagnosis and Prevention of
Congenital Malformations, Polish
Mother’s Memorial Hospital
Research Institute (Table 1). The
outcome of pregnancy was verified
in both the Polish National Registry
of Fetal Cardiac Pathology and
Hospital’s database.
In the Medline database,
publications concerning analogous
case and case series reports were
also analyzed (Table 2).
RESULTS
Data of the 11 cases from our unit are listed in Table
1. The mean maternal age was 28,0 ± 5,2 years, and
the mean gestational age at the time of diagnosis was
29 ± 7 weeks.
The graphical representation of distribution of the
gestational age of each fetus is shown in Figure 1.
How to Cite this Article:
Więckowska K, Dudarewicz L,
Moczulska H, Słodki M, Pietrzak Z,
Respondek-Liberska M.:
Postnatal outcomes of children with
prenatally diagnosed congenital heart
disease combined with congenital
diaphragmatic hernia.
Prenat Cardio. 2014 Dec;4(4):23-27
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In two cases, pregnancy was terminated in accordance
to Polish legislation. In five cases, neonates were delivered
by caesarean section, and in one case by vaginal delivery,
but with death on the first day of life. No information about
the other three live-born neonates was found.
Eight cases from literature (Table 2) pertaining to prenatal
diagnosis of complex heart defect with coexisting DH were
analyzed. Termination of pregnancy was performed in three
cases, four neonates died in the first days of life (in case
N
o
6 parents decided to withdraw support of extracardiac
oxygenation). The only newborn who did not required
a cardiothoracic surgery in the first month of life remains
alive and well. This child was not ductal dependent and
had a planned later cardiac surgery.
DISCUSSION
The relation between DH and CHD has been well
documented. Their coexistence is attributed to the
formation of the diaphragm and heart at similar times
during fetal development. CHD, among which hypoplastic
left heart syndrome is the most frequent, are noted in 10
to 25 % of DH, especially in the left-sided DH
1
.
No
Y
ear
CHD
Type of CHD in
fetal cardiology
ECM
Fetal
weight
(in grams)
at the
time of
diagnosis
Wks of
gestation at
the time of
diagnoseses
Deliver
y
Geste
age
at the
time of
delivery
Neonatal
birth
weight
(in grams)
Follow-up
1
2007
DORV, VSD
Non-urgent
DH, Galen
Malformation,
Polyhydramnion
2843
37
CS
39
2900 Death on 2
nd
day
2
2007
AV-canal + VSD
musc., dextropositio
Non-urgent
DH, Single umbilical
artery, IUGR,
Ahydramnion
964
bd
bd
bd
No data
3
2008
AVC,
Non-urgent
DH, Lung hypoplasia,
Hydronephrosis,
Polyhydramnion,
Megaureter
2920
38
CS
40
2980 Death after
delivery (1h)
4
2009
Dextropositio,
Disproportion, HLHS
Severe /
planned
DH, polyhydramnion
881
27
CS
39
3150 Death on 6
th
day
5
2009
Dextropositio, AV-canal Non-urgent
DH, hydrothorax,
Polyhydramnion,
SGA
1976
35
CS
35
2450 Death on
1
st
day
6
2009
TGA, HLHS/AV-
canal unbalanced,
Dextrocardia
Severe/ planned DH, Polyhydramnion
1289
30
bd
bd
bd
No data
7
2012
Single ventricle,
Trunus arteriosus,
Dektrowersja,
pericardial effusion
Severe/planned DH, Diaphragma
agenesis
316
19
CS
38
3800 Death on
1
st
day
8
2013
Tricuspid valve insuff.,
Hypoplastic aortic
arch, disproportion
Severe/planned DH – Right,
polyhydramnion
1535
30
-
-
-
Death in
utero
9
2014
Dekstrowersja,
common AV-canal
Non-urgent
DH –Left
270
21
-
-
-
TOP (?)
10
2014
SV/Truncus ,
Pericardial effusion.
Myocardial hypetrophy
Severe/planned DH, Hydrothorax
300
22
-
-
-
TOP (?)
11
2014
AVC/SV + TGA + PA
+ TAPVC + CS
Severe/planned DH
2216
38
SN
39
2410 Death on
2
nd
day
Table 1: Data from Department of Congenital Malformations Research Institute Polish Mother’s Memorial Hospital regarding 11 fetuses with congenital heart defect
and diaphragmatic hernia (years 2007-2014)
bd = no data
Figure 1. Schematic drawing of the fetal heart defect with diaphragmatic hernia
(case nr 11, table 1)
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Postnatal outcomes of children with prenatally diagnosed congenital heart disease combined with congenital diaphragmatic hernia
According to the analysis carried out in Polish
Mother’s Memorial Hospital Research Institute in 2006,
diaphragmatic hernia coexisting with extracardiac
malformations has been lethal. No patients diagnosed
with DH and congenital heart disease survived beyond
the neonatal period.
2
As other authors reported, the prognosis in DH and CHD
is poor
2-6
. No new scientific reports regarding DH+CHD
have been observed since 2006. Also the late gestational
age of the patients referred to our Department with respect
to the consultations described in published reports should
be emphasized, with regard to probable in utero demise
of fetuses with these combined conditions .
Chart 1. Presentation of the gestational age of fetuses with diaphragmatic hernia and congenital heart defect (from literature in green, from our uni in blue)
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WEEK
S OF GEST
ATION OF THE ANAL
YSED FETUSES
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Figure 2. Congenital heart defect with dilated coronay sinus and stomach in the fetal chest (case nr 11, Table 1)
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The Fetal Heart Team in Polish Mother’s Memorial
Hospital Research Institute is composed of specialists of
different sectors of perinatal care to discuss diagnoses
and treatment of the youngest patients – fetuses. During
Fetal Heart Team meetings, we take into account the recent
classification of congenital heart diseases proposed by
our team of prenatal cardiologists
7
. In this classification
there are:
Non-urgent heart defects (demanding intervention
during infancy),
Urgent but planned ductal dependent (not
immediate) (requiring classic cardiac surgery during the
neonatal period)
Critical (usually also ductal dependent) heart defects
for which immediate intervention after delivery or even
in
utero is required for;
The most severe heart defects meaning the treatment
is currently not possible.
This primary classification of CHD was further changed
by Słodki
8
, who added two other categories of CHD:
heart defects coexisting with structural extracardiac
malformations (which may be potentially corrected by
surgical intervention) and heart defects coincidental
with extracardiac anomalies (they are not qualified to
surgical treatment).
According to Słodki, only 14% of 89 neonates admitted to
Polish Mother’s Memorial Hospital Research Institute with
CHD complicated by extracardiac anomaly survived the first
month of life, provided that only one of the malformations
was treated surgically. No survival of neonate with severe
or critical heart defect and extracardiac malformation was
observed if both ECM and CHD required surgical treatment
during the first 28 days of postnatal life.
In the literature only two survivals have been reported
of neonates with prenatal diagnosis of DH and CHD
(Table 2, positions 4 and 9). In both cases the heart’s
Lp.
Y
ear
Author /Hospital
CHD + ECM
Type of
CHD in
prenatal
cardiology
WKs of
gestation
at the
time of
diagnosis
Deliver
y
Bir
th weight
WK
s of
gestation at the deliver
y
Follow-up
1
1994
Respondek ML, Binotto CN,
Smith S, Donnenfeld A, Weil
SR, Huhta JC; Pennsylvania
Hospital, Philadelphia, USA
VSD+DH+
dekstrokardia
Non-urgent
bd
-
-
-
Neonatal demise
2
1998
Yung Hang Lam, Mary Hoi
Yin Tang, Siu Tsan Yuen,
Hongkong, China
CHD, membranous
VSD, DH (left side),
hipertrofia RV,
pulmonary valve atresia
Severe /
planned
12
-
-
-
TOP
3
1999
Lucia Migliazza, Christian
Otten, Huimin Xia, Jose I.
Rodriguez, Juan A. Diez-Padro,
Juan A. Tovar, Madrid, Spain
DH + TGA
Severe /
planned
bd
-
-
-
Neonatal demise
4
2000
Lee Noimark
1
, Mark Sellwood
2
,
John Wyatt
3
and Robert Yates
4
1
University College London Medical
School, London, UK;
2
Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit, University College Hospital,
London, UK;
3
Neonatal Intensive Care
Unit, University College Hospital, London,
UK;
4
Cardiothoracic Unit, Great Ormond
Street Hospital, London, UK
TGA+VSD+DH,
Diproportion
Severe /
planned
19
-
-
37
8 month alive & well
5
2004
Hamrick SEG, Brook MM,
Farmer DL, San Fransisco,
California, USA
DH + pulmonary
sequestration + TGA
Severe /
planned
27
CS
(EXIT)
2000 g 34
Demise
6
2006
Isabel López, Juan A. Bafalliu,
M. Carmen Bernabé, Francisco
García, Miguel Costa and
Encarna Guillén-Navarro,
Argentina
DH, AVSD
Non-urgent
18
-
-
-
TOP
7
2006
Isabel López, Juan A. Bafalliu,
M. Carmen Bernabé, Francisco
García, Miguel Costa and
Encarna Guillén-Navarro,
Argentina
IUGR, CHD+DH (left
side), overlapped toes
-
19
-
-
-
TOP
8
2008
Wojciech Fendler, Andrzej
Piotrowski, Medical University
Hospital, Lodz, Poland
DH + d-TGA
(in autopsy)
Severe /
planned
bd
CS
bd
36/37
Death 1 h after
delivery
Table 2: Data from literature: fetal heart defect + diaphragmatic hernia (1994-2008)
Katarzyna Więckowska et al.
bd = no data
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Postnatal outcomes of children with prenatally diagnosed congenital heart disease combined with congenital diaphragmatic hernia
septal or atrial defects did
not constitute indication for
cardiosurgical intervention.
These defects would not
be considered as severe or
critical from the viewpoint of
prenatal cardiology.
Some cases of CHD
complicated by DH might be
still diagnosed postnatally
but these are likely to exist
in the wide spectrum of
these malformations that are
significantly less severe.
CONCLUSION
The presented analyses of
cases from the literature, as
well as those observed by
our Department, confirm the
unfavorable prognosis for
neonates in cases of severe
or critical prenatally detected congenital heart defect
with coexisting diaphragmatic hernia. Additional cases
with milder forms may survive neonatal surgery for
diaphragmatic hernia and later on (in infancy) surgery
for heart defect.
Figure 3. Abnormal pulmonary venous drainage behind the left atrium (case nr 11, table 1)
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Financing: The research was not financed from the external
sources
Conflict of interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest
and did not receive any remuneration related to the creation of
this work.
Authors and division in work:
K. Więckowska: data search and first draft
M. Słodki: discussion and correction of the manuscript
L. Dudarewicz: discussion and correction of the manuscript
H. Moczulska: data search, photo search, discussion, submission
Z. Pietrzak: discussion and correction of the manuscript
M. Respondek-Liberska: concept of the research, correction of the
paper, final version
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