Objectives: Children with congenital heart disease are at high risk for developmental
sequelae. Most studies focus on preoperative and intraoperative predictors of …

Background Prior research has focused on early outcomes after congenital heart surgery,
but less is known about later risks. We aimed to determine the late causes of death among …

Background The early results of congenital heart surgery in neonates remain a challenge.
We sought to determine the nature of the association between annual center volume of …

Background: The European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association (ECHSA) Congenital
Heart Surgery Database (CHSD) was founded in 1999 and is open for worldwide …

This article is based on a composite of talks presented during the Double Jeopardy:
Prematurity and Congenital Heart Disease Plenary Session at NeoHeart 2020, a global …

ABSTRACT Objectives. The Risk Adjusted Classification for Congenital Heart Surgery can
predict early mortality. However, the relation to long‐term outcome in terms of mortality and …

Aims Neonatal surgical mortality continues to be high in developing countries. A better
understanding of perioperative events and optimization of causative factors can help in …

Introduction Successful surgical treatment of congenital heart disease improves neonates'
long-term survival and leads to catch-up growth, which however does not occur in part of the …

Objective: This study aims to investigate the incidence of postnatal diagnosis of congenital
heart disease (CHD) and the predictive factors for hospital mortality. Methods: This …

Objective: Data regarding preoperative mortality in neonates with critical CHD are sparse
and would aid patient care and family counselling. The objective of this study was to utilise a …