Association Between Prenatal Diagnosis and Age at Surgery for Noncritical and Critical Congenital Heart Defects.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The relationship between the prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defects (CHDs) and age at CHD surgery is poorly understood, despite the known relationships between age at surgery and long-term outcomes. The objective of this study was to determine the associations between prenatal diagnosis of CHD and age at surgery, and whether these associations differ for critical and noncritical CHDs.

Methods

This is a cohort analysis of patients aged 0 to 9 years who received their initial cardiac surgery at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago between 2015 and 2021 with prenatal diagnosis as the exposure variable. All data were obtained from the locally maintained Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database at Lurie Children's Hospital.

SUBMITTER: Woo JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10524984 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature