Background: Fetal Ebstein's anomaly and tricuspid valve dysplasia (EA/TVD) are associated with high perinatal mortality relative to pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum (PAIVS), despite both requiring redistribution of the cardiac output (CO) to the left ventricle (LV). LV dysfunction is suspected to contribute to adverse outcomes in EA/TVD.
Objective: We sought to examine global and segmental LV function in fetal EA/TVD with comparison to normal controls and PAIVS. We hypothesized that LV dysfunction in EA/TVD is associated with abnormal LV remodeling and interventricular mechanics.
Methods: We retrospectively identified 63 cases of fetal EA/TVD (40 with retrograde ductal flow) and 22 cases of PAIVS encountered from 2004 to 2015 and compared findings to 77 controls of comparable gestational age. We measured the combined CO and global LV function using two-dimensional, Doppler-derived, deformational (six-segmental vector velocity imaging) and dyssynchrony indices (DIs; SD of time to peak), and a novel global DI.
Results: EA/TVD fetuses demonstrated abnormal LV global systolic function with reduced ejection fraction, fractional area change, and CO, while in PAIVS we observed a normal ejection fraction, fractional area change, and CO. PAIVS, but not EA/TVD, demonstrated increased LV sphericity, suggestive of remodeling, and associated enhanced radial function in the third trimester. In contrast, while EA/TVD fetuses had normal LV segmental longitudinal strain, there was abnormal radial segmental deformation and LV dyssynchrony with increased SD of time to peak and DI.
Conclusions: Fetal EA/TVD is associated with a lack of spherical remodeling and presence of mechanical dyssynchrony, which likely contribute to reduced CO and ejection fraction. Clinical monitoring of LV function is warranted in fetal EA/TVD. Further studies incorporating quantification of LV function into prediction models for adverse outcomes are required.
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