Preoperative malnutrition is associated with increased mortality and adverse outcomes after paediatric cardiac surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Malnutrition is common in children with CHD and is likely to place them at an increased risk for adverse surgical outcomes. We sought to evaluate the impact of preoperative malnutrition on outcomes after paediatric cardiac surgery.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective analysis of patients from age 0 to 5 years undergoing cardiac surgery at Seattle Children's Hospital from 2006 to 2015. We used regression modelling to examine the impact of malnutrition on surgical outcomes.

Results

We found a non-linear relationship between low height-for-age and weight-for-age z-scores and mortality after surgery. In the range of z-score ⩽-2, each additional unit decrease in height-for-age or weight-for-age z-score was associated with a 2.9 or 2.1% increased risk for mortal

SUBMITTER: Ross F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5908464 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature