Background and Objectives Adults with congenital heart disease (CHD) are an increasing
group of patients thanks to the survival of over 85% of children with CHD. 20% of these …

Background Patients with congenital heart disease are frequently surviving into adulthood,
and many of them will require surgery. Currently, there is no validated risk scoring system for …

Objectives: Currently, there are few specific risk stratification models available to predict
mortality following congenital heart surgery in adults. We sought to evaluate whether the …

Objective: At this moment, no risk stratification models are available for adult congenital
cardiac surgery. This study aims to identify a suitable stratification tool for the adult …

This study compared the performance of risk adjustment for congenital heart surgery
(RACHS-1) score with paediatric risk of mortality (PRISM) score in operative risk prediction …

ABSTRACT Introduction: Risk Adjustment for Congenital Heart Surgery 1 (RACHS-1) score
is a simple model that can be easily applied and has been widely used for mortality …

Objective: The aim was to develop a consensus-based method of risk adjustment for in-
hospital mortality among children younger than 18 years after surgery for congenital heart …

Objective The purpose of this study was to develop risk models for congenital heart surgery
short-term and midterm outcomes from a nationwide integrated database drawn from …

Aims and Objectives: To validate Aristotle basic complexity and Aristotle comprehensive
complexity (ABC and ACC) and risk adjustment in congenital heart surgery-1 (RACHS-1) …

Background Outcomes for pediatric cardiac surgery are commonly reported from
international databases compiled from voluntary data submissions. Surgical outcomes for all …