Clinical Results of a Modified Doty’s Technique for Supravalvular Aortic Stenosis

This study aimed to assess the early and mid-term results of the modified Doty’s technique compared with the traditional Doty’s technique in patients with congenital supravalvular aortic stenosis (SVAS). We retrospectively included 73 consecutive SVAS patients in Beijing and Yunnan Fuwai Hospitals between 2014 and 2021. Patients were divided into the modified technique (n = 9) and the traditional technique group (n = 64). The modified technique involves altering the right head of the symmetrical inverted pantaloon-shaped patch into an asymmetrical triangular form to prevent compression of the right coronary artery ostium. The primary safety outcome was in-hospital surgery-related complications and the primary effectiveness outcome was re-operation at follow-up. The Mann–Whitney U test and Fisher’s exact test were used to test the group difference. The median age at operation was 50 months (IQR 27.0–96.0). Twenty-two (30.1%) of the patients were female. The median follow-up was 23.5 months (IQR 3.0–46.0). No in-hospital surgery-related complications and follow-up re-operation occurred in the modified technique group, but the traditional technique group had 14 (21.8%) surgery-related complications and 5 (7.9%) re-operation. Patients with the modified technique had a well-developed aortic root and no aortic regurgitation occurred. A modified technique could be considered for patients with poor aortic root development to reduce postoperative surgery-related complications.

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