Cardiac surgery in infants with low birth weight is associated with increased mortality: Analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Database

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 546-551

  Curzon, Christopher L ^a   Milford Beland, Sarah ^b   Li, Jennifer S ^a,b   O'Brien, Sean M ^b   Jacobs, Jeffrey Phillip ^c   Jacobs, Marshall Lewis ^d   Welke, Karl F ^e   Lodge, Andrew J ^a   Peterson, Eric D ^b   Jaggers, James ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^e OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY BYPASS; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INFANT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 40149086194     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.09.068     Document Type: Article

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