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    Annavajjhala, Vidhya; Valente, Anne Marie; Lopez, Leo; Sachdeva, Ritu; Glickstein, Julie S.; Natarajan, Shobha S.; Buddhe, Sujatha; Altmann, Karen; Soriano, Brian D.; Colquitt, John L.; Altman, Carolyn A.; Sasaki, Nao; Sakarovitch, Charlotte; Tacy, Theresa A.; Geva, Tal; Selamet Tierney, Elif Seda

    International journal of cardiology, 05/2020, Letnik: 307
    Journal Article

    Longitudinal clinical surveillance by transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is an established practice in children with repaired tetralogy of Fallot (TOF). Non-Invasive Imaging Guidelines recommends a list of reporting elements that should be addressed during routine TTE in this population. In this study, we assessed the adherence to these recommendations. This was a multi-center (n = 8) retrospective review of TTE reports in children ≤11 years of age who have had complete TOF repair. We included 10 patients from each participating center (n = 80) and scored 2 outpatient follow-up TTE reports on each patient. The adherence rate was based on completeness of TTE reporting elements derived from the guidelines. We reviewed 160 TTE reports on 80 patients. Median age was 4.4 months (IQR 1.5-6.6) and 3.6 years (IQR 1.3-6.4) at the time of complete surgical repair and first TTE report, respectively. The median adherence rate to recommended reporting elements was 61% (IQR 53–70). Of the 160 reports, 9 (7%) were ≥80% adherent and 40 (25%) were ≥70% adherent. Quantitative measurements of right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT), right ventricular (RV) size and function, and branch pulmonary arteries were least likely to be reported. Overall adherence to the most recent published imaging guidelines for surveillance of children with repaired TOF patients was suboptimal, especially for reporting of RVOT, RV size and function, and branch pulmonary arteries. Further studies are needed to explore the barriers to adherence to guidelines and most importantly, whether adherence is associated with clinical outcomes. In pediatric patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot, surveillance adherence to guidelines is suboptimal, warranting further studies on the barriers to adherence and its implications on clinical outcomes. Display omitted •Longitudinal echo surveillance after tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) repair is important.•There are published reporting guidelines for echo surveillance in repaired TOF.•In a multicenter study we showed suboptimal adherence to the reporting guidelines.•Quantitative indices of RV size/function and pulmonary artery were least reported.•Further studies should determine if adherence is associated with clinical outcomes.