Trends in Long-Term Mortality After Congenital Heart Surgery
Spector LG, Menk JS, Knight JH, McCracken C, Thomas AS, Vinocur JM, Oster ME, St Louis JD, Moller JH, Kochilas L. Trends in Long-Term Mortality After Congenital Heart Surgery. Journal Of The American College Of Cardiology 2018, 71: 2434-2446. PMID: 29793633, PMCID: PMC5978758, DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.03.491.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsStandardized mortality ratioCongenital heart surgeryLong-term mortalityHeart surgeryLong-term survivalGeneral populationOverall standardized mortality ratioSurvival of patientsLarge U.S. cohortNational Death IndexPatent ductus arteriosusPediatric cardiac surgeryAtrial septal defectForms of CHDMulticenter registryCardiac surgeryDuctus arteriosusSingle ventricleDeath IndexGreat arteriesSeptal defectMortality ratioU.S. cohortSurgerySurvival analysis