Infants Who Have Undergone Cardiac Surgery: What Can We Learn About Lengths of Stay in the Hospital and Presence of Complications?

Andreasson, 1993, Hemofiltration modifies complement activation after extracorporeal circulation in infants, Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 56, 1515, 10.1016/0003-4975(93)90743-2 Barber, 1998, Hypoplastic left heart syndrome, vol. 2, 1625 Bengur, 1998, Truncus arteriosus, vol. 1, 1421 Borowski, 1997, Open heart interventions in premature low- and very-low-birth-weight neonates: Risk profile and ethical considerations, Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon, 45, 238, 10.1055/s-2007-1013734 Castaneda, 1994 Castaneda, 1989, The neonate with critical congenital heart disease: Repair—A surgical challenge, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 98, 869, 10.1016/S0022-5223(19)34265-5 Castaneda, 1988, The early results of treatment of simple transposition in the current era, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 95, 14, 10.1016/S0022-5223(19)35382-6 Chang, 1991, Hypoplastic left heart syndrome: Hemodynamic and angiographic assessment after initial reconstructive surgery and relevance to modified Fontan procedure, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 17, 1143, 10.1016/0735-1097(91)90845-Z Cohen, 1992, Surgical management of congenital heart disease in the 1990s, American Journal of Diseases of Childhood, 146, 1447 Colvin, 1998, Single ventricle, vol. 2, 1589 Cooley, D. & Hallman, G. (1966). Surgical treatment of congenital heart disease. Philadelphia: Lea Corno, 2000, Surgery for congenital heart disease, Current Opinions in Cardiology, 15, 238, 10.1097/00001573-200007000-00005 Dodge-Khatami, 2001, Neonatal complete correction of tetralogy of Fallot versus shunting and deferred repair: Is the future of the right ventriculo-arterial junction at stake, and what of it?, Cardiology in the Young, 11, 484, 10.1017/S1047951101000701 Feltes, 1998, Postoperative recovery from congenital heart disease, 2387 Fyler, 1980, Report of the New England Regional Cardiac Infant Program, Pediatrics, 65, 375 Gaynor, 2001, Management strategies for infants with coarctation and an associated ventricular spetal defect, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 122, 424, 10.1067/mtc.2001.116942 Gumbiner, 1998, Ventricular septal defect, vol. 1, 1119 Hazinski, 1992, Cardiovascular disorders, 117 Iannettoni, 1994, Improving results with first-stage palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 107, 934, 10.1016/S0022-5223(94)70352-3 Iyer, 1997, Outcomes after delayed sternal closure in pediatric heart operations: A 10-year experience, Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 63, 489, 10.1016/S0003-4975(96)01021-1 Karl, 2001, Neonatal cardiac surgery: Anatomic, physiologic, and technical considerations, Clinics in Perinatology, 28, 159, 10.1016/S0095-5108(05)70073-7 Kirklin, 1992, Clinical outcomes after the arterial switch operation for transposition: Patient, support, procedural, and institutional risk factors, Circulation, 86, 1501, 10.1161/01.CIR.86.5.1501 Mahan, 2003, Recent advances in neonatal cardiac surgery, Middle East Journal of Anesthesiology, 17, 219 Manning, 2001, Treatment and outcome of serious structural congenital heart disease, Seminars in Neonatology, 6, 37047, 10.1053/siny.2000.0033 Massin, 1999, Midterm results of the neonatal arterial switch operation. A review, Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, 40, 517 McDaniel, 2001, Ventricular and atrial septal defects, Pediatric Reviews, 22, 265, 10.1542/pir.22-8-265 McElhinney, 1997, Modified Damus–Kaye–Stansel procedure for single ventricle, subaortic stenosis, and arch obstruction in neonates and infants: Midterm results and techniques for avoiding circulatory arrest, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 114, 718, 10.1016/S0022-5223(97)70075-8 McElhinney, 2001, Outcomes of neonates with congenital heart disease, Current Opinions in Pediatrics, 13, 104, 10.1097/00008480-200104000-00003 Miller, 1968, Congenital pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect: Review of the clinical course of fifty patients with assessment of the results of palliative surgery, American Journal of Cardiology, 21, 673, 10.1016/0002-9149(68)90265-8 Mitchell, 1971, Congenital heart disease in 56,109 births: Incidence and natural history, Circulation, 63, 323, 10.1161/01.CIR.43.3.323 Morriss, 1998, Coarctation of the aorta and interrupted aortic arch, vol. 1, 1317 Neches, 1998, Tetralogy of Fallot and tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia, 1383 Neches, 1998, Transposition of the great arteries, 1463 Norwood, 1988, Intermediate results of the arterial switch repair: A 20-institution study, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 96, 854, 10.1016/S0022-5223(19)35153-0 Numa, 1992, Outcome of infants with birthweight 2000 g or less who undergo major cardiac surgery, Journal of Paediatric and Child Health, 28, 318, 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1992.tb02676.x Parkman, S. E. (1999). The infant undergoing cardiac surgery: Can we predict length of stay and presence of complication from age, weight, diagnoses and type of surgery? Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Seattle: University of Washington. Rosenthal and Dick (1995). Tricuspid atresia. In Moss and Adams Heart Disease in infants, children and adolescents, G. C. Emmanoulides, H. D. Allen, T. A. Reimenschneider & H. P. Gutgesell. Silka, 1998, Double-outlet ventricles, vol. 2, 1505 Ungerleider, 1997, Risk factors for higher cost in congenital heart operations, Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 64, 44, 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)00503-1 Vick, 1998, Defects of the atrial septum including atrioventricular septal defects, vol. 1, 1141 Ward, 1998, Anomalous pulmonary venous connections, pulmonary vein stenosis, and atresia of the common pulmonary vein, vol. 1, 1431