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Heart 1998;79:180-185; doi:10.1136/hrt.79.2.180
Copyright © 1998 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & British Cardiovascular Society

Heart 1998;79:180-185 ( February )

Monosomy 22q11 in patients with pulmonary atresia, ventricular septal defect, and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries

Michael Hofbeck,a Anita Rauch,c Gernot Buheitel,a Georg Leipold,a Jürgen von der Emde,b Rudolf Pfeiffer,c Helmut Singera

a Department of Paediatric Cardiology, University Children's Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, b Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Erlangen, c Institute of Human Genetics, University Erlangen

Correspondence to: Dr Hofbeck, Abteilung für Kinderkardiologie, Univ Kinderklinik, Loschgestr 15, D 91054 Erlangen, Germany.

Accepted for publication 23 June 1997

Objective---To describe the morphology of the pulmonary arteries in patients with pulmonary atresia, ventricular septal defect, and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries with and without monosomy 22q11.
Design---A retrospective analysis of all patients with this congenital heart defect who are being followed at the University Children's Hospital Erlangen.
Setting---A tertiary referral centre for paediatric cardiology and paediatric cardiac surgery.
Patients---21 patients with pulmonary atresia, ventricular septal defect, and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries. Monosomy 22q11 was diagnosed by fluorescent in situ hybridisation using the D22S75 probe (Oncor). The morphology of the pulmonary arteries was assessed on the basis of selective angiograms.
Results---10 patients (48%) were shown to have a microdeletion in 22q11 (group I). There was no difference with respect to the presence of confluent central pulmonary arteries between these patients (80%) and the remaining 11 patients (group II) without monosomy 22q11 (91%). Patients of group I, however, more often had arborisation anomalies of the pulmonary vascular bed (90% in group I v 27% in group II). Because of the more severe abnormalities of the pulmonary arteries, a biventricular repair had not been possible in any of the children with monosomy 22q11, though repair had been carried out in 64% of the children in group II.
Conclusions---The developmental disturbance caused by monosomy 22q11 seems to impair the connection of the peripheral pulmonary artery segments to the central pulmonary arteries in patients with pulmonary atresia, ventricular septal defect, and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries, resulting in a lower probability of biventricular repair.

Keywords: CATCH 22;  pulmonary atresia and ventricular septal defect;  major aortopulmonary collateral arteries;  conotruncal anomaly face syndrome

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