Background: Little is known about preoperative factors affecting cardiac surgery outcomes of
neonates in China. We sought to examine the association between characteristics of …

Background Despite improvements in neonatal cardiac surgery and postoperative care,
hospitalized death for infants with low birth weight remains high. Objective This study sought …

Objective To evaluate the outcomes after neonatal cardiac surgery at our institute, and
identify factors associated with operative mortality. Methods We examined 224 neonates …

Objective Many studies still dispute the identification of independent risk factors that
influence outcome after neonatal cardiac surgery. We present our study to announce the …

We studied the effect of preoperative determinants on early outcomes of 1028 consecutive
infant heart operations in a limited-resource setting. Comprehensive data on pediatric heart …

Background Previous studies suggest that birth before 39 weeks' gestational age (GA) is
associated with higher perioperative mortality and morbidity after congenital heart surgery …

Objective Given excellent 30-day survival for pediatric cardiac surgery, other outcome
measures are important. We aimed to study important early postoperative morbidities …

Background: Long hospital stays for neonates following cardiac surgery can be detrimental
to short-and long-term outcomes. Furthermore, it can impact resource allocation within heart …

Background—Gestational age at birth is a potentially important modifiable risk factor in
neonates with congenital heart disease. We evaluated the relationship between gestational …

Background: The perioperative complications rate in paediatric cardiac surgery, as well as
the failure-to-rescue impact, is less known in low-and middle-income countries. Aim: To …