Impact of early surgical correction or palliation of congenital heart defects in infants with symptomatic viral respiratory tract infections in the current era.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study investigates the influence of timing of surgery among infants with congenital heart disease and active respiratory tract infections in a contemporary Western Canadian cohort.

Methods

This was a retrospective matched cohort study of infants aged 1 week to 6 months undergoing surgical repair of congenital heart disease between 2014 and 2017. Case patients had active respiratory tract infections preoperatively and were matched to control patients based on primary heart lesion. The primary outcome was time to extubation.

Results

We identified 20 cases (median age, 3.4 months [range, 2.4-4.3 months]) that were matched to 40 controls (1:2 ratio). In case patients, surgery occurred at a median of 1 day after the positive viral testing. There were no stat

SUBMITTER: Giffin NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9390683 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature