2017
Long-Term Transplant-Free Survival After Repair of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection
St. Louis J, McCracken C, Turk E, Hancock H, Menk J, Harvey B, Vinocur J, Oster M, Moller J, Spector L, Kochilas L. Long-Term Transplant-Free Survival After Repair of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection. The Annals Of Thoracic Surgery 2017, 105: 186-192. PMID: 28847536, PMCID: PMC5729081, DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.05.052.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTotal anomalous pulmonary venous connectionTransplant-free survivalAnomalous pulmonary venous connectionPediatric Cardiac Care ConsortiumPulmonary venous connectionNational Death IndexLong-term outcomesTAPVC repairPostoperative lengthVenous connectionCardiac lesionsDeath IndexUnited NetworkOrgan SharingCare ConsortiumRepair of TAPVCLong-term transplant-free survivalWorse long-term outcomesBilateral lung transplantationDeath/transplantRisks of transplantationRisk of mortalityTime of procedureMajority of deathsCause of death
2016
In‐Hospital Vital Status and Heart Transplants After Intervention for Congenital Heart Disease in the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium: Completeness of Ascertainment Using the National Death Index and United Network for Organ Sharing Datasets
Spector L, Menk J, Vinocur J, Oster M, Harvey B, St. Louis J, Moller J, Kochilas L. In‐Hospital Vital Status and Heart Transplants After Intervention for Congenital Heart Disease in the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium: Completeness of Ascertainment Using the National Death Index and United Network for Organ Sharing Datasets. Journal Of The American Heart Association 2016, 5: e003783. PMID: 27506544, PMCID: PMC5015299, DOI: 10.1161/jaha.116.003783.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPediatric Cardiac Care ConsortiumNational Death IndexCongenital heart diseaseOrgan Sharing datasetHeart transplantUNOS registryDeath IndexUnited NetworkHeart diseaseCare ConsortiumLong-term deathLong-term outcomesCompleteness of ascertainmentHospital deathTransplant statusVital statusNational registryCase ascertainmentCardiovascular conditionsTransplant eventsTransplantYears postinterventionRegistryDeathPatients
2014
Age‐Dependent Sex Effects on Outcomes After Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
Kochilas LK, Vinocur JM, Menk JS. Age‐Dependent Sex Effects on Outcomes After Pediatric Cardiac Surgery. Journal Of The American Heart Association 2014, 3: e000608. PMID: 24496232, PMCID: PMC3959673, DOI: 10.1161/jaha.113.000608.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdolescentAge FactorsCardiac Surgical ProceduresChildChild, PreschoolChi-Square DistributionFemaleHealth Status DisparitiesHeart Defects, CongenitalHospital MortalityHumansInfantInfant, NewbornLogistic ModelsMaleMultivariate AnalysisNorth AmericaOdds RatioRegistriesRetrospective StudiesRisk FactorsSex FactorsTime FactorsTreatment OutcomeConceptsPediatric cardiac operationsPediatric cardiac surgeryCardiac surgeryCardiac operationsPostsurgical mortalityHigh-risk cardiac operationsPediatric Cardiac Care ConsortiumRisk of deathMonths of lifePotential sex differencesAge-dependent relationshipSurgical yearHospital mortalityUnadjusted mortalityPatient sexWhole cohortHigh-risk operationsCardiovascular diseaseSex effectsCardiovascular stressCare ConsortiumEarly infancyZ-scoreLogistic regressionMortality