Trends in Long-Term Mortality After Congenital Heart Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Congenital heart surgery has improved the survival of patients with even the most complex defects, but the long-term survival after these procedures has not been fully described.

Objectives

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the long-term survival of patients (age <21 years) who were operated on for congenital heart defects (CHDs).

Methods

This study used the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium data, a U.S.-based, multicenter registry of pediatric cardiac surgery. Survival analysis included 35,998 patients who survived their first congenital heart surgery at <21 years of age and had adequate identifiers for linkage with the National Death Index through 2014. Survival was compared to that in the general population using standardized mortality ratios (SM

SUBMITTER: Spector LG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5978758 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature