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K.M. Cherian MS FRACS DSc (Hons) DSc (HC)
Frontier Lifeline & Dr.K.M.Cherian Heart Foundation, Chennai
Experience with Ross Procedure in India
Frontier LifelineChennai
Ross Summit II - 2009 Atlanta
India is a country full of paradoxes. Be it economic stratas in the society, culture, climate or the terrain. A nation of 1.2 billion people with contradictions, that is India.
Parumala,,
Chennai
Top 10 Economies
Ranking CountryApproximate GDP- Purchasing Power Parity
1 USA $13,860,000,000,000
2 China $7,043,000,000,000
3 Japan $4,305,000,000,000
4 India $2,965,000,000,0005 Germany $2,833,000,000,000
6 United Kingdom $2,147,000,000,000
7 Russia $2,076,000,000,000
8 France $2,067,000,000,000
9 Brazil $1,838,000,000,000
10 Italy $1,800,000,000,000
Below Poverty Line is a benchmark used by the Government of India to indicate economic disadvantage
Internationally, an income of < $1 / day/head of PPP is defined as extreme poverty – 37% of Indians are extremely poor and therefore below the poverty line
Our experience
Special situations
RVOT Reconstruction with xenografts
Mr.Donald Ross conducted the
first workshop for us in
September 1987 (Chennai)
CLASSICAL ROSS Procedures
(2)
Top hat for Tricuspid valve
replacement (for SBE) (1)
Frontier Conclave 2005 Frontier Conclave 2006
Prof Zohair Al-Halees
7 Ross Procedures & 1 Ross
Kono in 2 days with no mortality
Severe Aortic Valve diseases in:
New born infants
Children
Young adults
Women of child bearing age
Patients with infective endocarditis
Patients with complex LVOT obstruction
16th December 1974
Mr. Donald Ross
arrange but at the age of 23, I would be much happier putting in a homograft valve and would certainly use it if it were my own son.
“COST CONTAINMENT”
DOS:22.12.1995
From 1990 till date
No. of patients 160
Age 3 months - 51 years
Males 121
Females 39
Aortic stenosis - 65 pts
Aortic stenosis with Regurgitation - 45 “
Aortic regurgitation - 40 “
Associated CAD - 4 “
Mitral Valve Repair(MV repair 2 and OMV 1) - 3 “
VSD Closure - 2 “
Cong.AS with previous BAV - 1 “
CPB timeRange:101 - 325 minutes
Mean: 124 . 19 minutes
ACC timeRange; 59 - 129 minutes
Mean: 86.46 minutes
Re-exploration within 24 hrs : 12 patients
Delayed sternal closure : 8 patients
Additional CABG for suspected coronary insufficiency : 7 patients
Mortality : 6 patients
Antibiotics for 3 days Aspirin for 6 months Blood culture on 5th post-operative day Follow up echo at 7 days, 3 months and at annual
check up Penicillin prophylaxis till 45 years of age for RHD
patients
Seventh post-op day
Acceptable aortic valve function
Acceptable pulmonary valve function
Three months old child weighing 3.2 kg Ross with reconstruction of RVOT using aortic homograft Two years later came back with severe PR Underwent replacement of the homograft with decelluarised xenograft
11 year old boy
Aortic regurgitation
Both coronaries arising from posterior sinus
Intraluminal angioscopic view showing the orifice of coronaries
19 year old female
Severe calcific AS with root disease
Abscess cavity projecting into RVOT
Abscess cavity exteriorized with indigenous bovine pericardium and Ross procedure performed
Post-op Echo
50 year old man 5 years post-op Ross Chest x-ray : widened aortic
shadow 2-D Echocardiogram : Normally
functioning autograft valve, normally functioning pulmonary homograft and dilated ascending aorta
64-slice CT delineated the aneurysm of the autograft with dissection
Coronary arteries : normal autograft
Intra-operatively, the dissection flap was extending from the level of previous aortotomy to the sino-tubular junction
The left and right coronary buttons were intact
The valve leaflets and the annulus were normal
The native ascending aorta beyond the autograft was normal
Valve sparing root replacement with 28mm Hemashield Dacron graft was performed
Histological examination of the excised autograft wall showed focal loss of elastic fibres and proteoglycan deposition
Presence of a suture line between the native aorta and the pulmonary autograft as well as around the coronary buttons limits the extension of the dissection
Conclusion: Dissection of the pulmonary autograft can occur without neo-aortic valve involvement. Valve sparing root replacement can be done in this situation
The number of Ross procedures performed all over the world is declining due to scarcity or non- availability of Homografts
The Redfern Report, which investigated postmortem practices at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, identified malpractice
Number of functioning homograft banks in the country: 3
Restrictions from government Delays in post mortem examination Third party insurance necessitates “request” for autopsy from
Police as the body belongs to state Unacceptable mortuary conditions Medico legal cases only come for post mortem Multi religious, multiracial, multilingual and Superstitious
society
We have used indigenously prepared xenografts for RVOT reconstruction in 23 patients undergoing ROSS so far.
The hemodynamic performance, in-hospital results and follow up results are comparable to homograft
Tensile strength testing Stress, strain, Young’s modulus
Burst test
Differential scanning calorimetry
FT-IR
Microscopy
To prove acellularity, collagen architecture, shelf life determination etc
H & E staining Von Giessons staining High resolution optical
microscopy Confocal microscopy Transmission electron
microscopy Scanning electron
Cytotoxicity studies
In vivo In vitro
Guinea pig maximization studies
Retrovirus detection by genomic studies
Acellularity studies by DNA detection
Large animal experiment proving autologous cell deposition and trizonation of the fibrous matrix
Thrombogenicity studies shows no thrombosis
Collagenase digestion tests - resistant to digestion
DSC showing collagen stability of Tissue (>80°°C)
FT-IR Showing largely collagen conformity by presence of amide (CO=NH at 1450-1650 range and non heparin treated BP has shown presence of large spike at 1740 suggesting free-COOH group(arrow)
No spike at 1740-BP(H+)
BP( H-)
Operative photograph showing processed BP implanted as an interposition graft in the internal jugular vein of sheep
Group A explanted from the sheep after 6 months showing thickening of the vessel wall
TESI VIIIth annual congress in Shanghai, China. 2005 October (22nd – 25th) Decellularization of xenografts for clinical use. Soma Guhathakurta, Susan Verghese, Sushma Nayar, Ravi Agarwal, B S Murthy, S Veerappan, P Padmaja, V Balasubramanian, KM Cherian
S. Guhathakurta, S Verghese, V Balasubramanian R Agarwal, BS Murthy, S. Veerappan, P Padmaja, KM Cherian “ Technique to process xenogenic tissues for cardiovascular implantation – preliminary report”, Current Science, Volume 91 No.8, 25 October 2006.
Cherian K M ., Soma Guhathakurta., Susan Verghese., Murthy B S., Ravi Agarwal., Versatile Use Of Indigenously Prepared Bovine Jugular Vein Conduit In Pediatric Cardiac Surgery; 4th World Congress Of Pediatric Cardiology And Cardiac Surgery, Sept. 18-22,2005. Buenos Aires Argentina
R Balasundari, E Kurien, R Gupta, S
Veerappan, S Warrier, V Balasubramanian, K
M Cherian, S Guhathakurta, “ Post
processing complete microbe free Porcine
xenograft suitable for clinical use"
IJTCVS2007;23:240-245. Radha Chandrasekaran ,Balasundari Ramesh
Veerappan Sivasubramanian, Cherian
Kotturathu Mammen, Vijaya Nayak , Soma
Guhathakurta: Cytotoxicity and
Sensitization Studies of Processed Porcine
Xenografts IJTCVS2007;23:240-245. S Guhathakurta, V Balasubramanian, B.V.R
Tata, KM Cherian, “Effect of Gamma
Irradiation on Xenogenic Tissue Property
” (Revised manuscript under review) S. Guhathakurta “Processing Of Xenografts
for Cardiovascular use”-Nagarjun
University-Stem 2006- Society for
Regenerative Medicine &Tissue Engineering
Guhathakurta, “ Xenografts For Cardiovascular Implants” ; Frontier Conclave - an International Update in Cardiovascular Medicine. December 2005, International Centre For Cardio Thoracic And Vascular Diseases, Frontier Life Line
S. Guhathakurta,,” Processing Of Xenografts As Alternative Cardiovascular Implants”- INDO-US workshop, Sri Chitra Thirunal Institute of Medical Sciences, Thiruvananthapuram, India, Feb 1-3, 2007
Dr. Soma Guhathakurta, Director, Frontier Lifeline, Chennai, India,CLRI – Diamond Jubilee celebration; international conference on RECENT TRENDS IN COLLAGEN- Session 3: Diseases. Jan24-25, 2008.
Guhathakurta, Soma1; Balasubramanian, Venkatesh2; Agarwal, Ravi1; Cherian,KotturathuMammen1Indigenously Processed Bovine Pericardium For Cardiovascular Use), Oral presentation at the 18th World Congress of the World Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons, held at Kos Island , Greece from April 30th to May 3rd 2008.
Soma Guhathakurta, Balasundari R, Sadasiv Santosh Mathapaty, Satish Galla, Ravi Agarwal, Prashant Vyjyanath,K M Cherian, Indigenously processed xenografts for clinical cardiovascular surgical use ;Indo-Aus Biomedical Device Conference, New Delhi,5th March 2009
S. Guhathakurta, V Balasubramanian, B V R Tata, B Anathakrishnan, S Veerappan, R Balasundari, KM Cherian, “Thrombogenicity studies of three different variants of processed bovine pericardium,” Innovation and Technology in Biology and Medicine (in press)IRBM, Volume 29,Issue 4, September 2008, Pages 223 - 230, Elsevier Masson; Science Direct.
50 year old male
Severe calcific aortic stenosis
Ross procedure in February 2004
RVOT reconstruction with porcine xenograft
64 CT MRI Reconstruction on 18/9/09
Ross procedure is a suitable alternative for prosthetic valve replacement in young patients and those with contraindications for anticoagulant therapy
Our initial learning curve has been traumatic from high incidence of reopening for bleeding, delayed sternal closure and coronary insufficiency
At present we have satisfactorily overcome these difficulties
Ross Operation - 3 Age - 12 to 15 yrs Mortality - Nil
Ideal indication (RHD) with good results (no mortality), in unusual location – a small village (non-metropolis or university hospitals) is now possible
Xenografts:
Cost effectiveness makes it suitable for developing nations – US$ 500 as against US$ 2000
No structural failure or SBE so far in this small series
Satisfactory mid term follow-up with functions comparable to homografts. Few of the procedures employing xenograft, have also been performed by surgeons from other countries as well, with similar results.
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