Risk of Clinically Relevant Pericardial Effusion After Pediatric Cardiac Surgery.

ABSTRACT: Pericardial effusion (PE) after pediatric cardiac surgery is common. Because of the lack of a uniform classification of the presence and severity of PE, we evaluated PE altering clinical management: clinically relevant PE. Risk factors for clinically relevant PE were studied. After cardiac surgery, children were followed until 1 month after surgery. Preoperative variables were studied in the complete cohort. Perioperative and postoperative variables were studied in a case-control manner. Patients with and without clinically relevant PE were matched on age, gender, and diagnosis severity in a 1:1 ratio. Multivariate analysis was conducted using important preoperative variables from the complete cohort combined with perioperative and postoperative variables from the case-control data. 1241 s

SUBMITTER: Adrichem R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6420454 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature