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We thank Chaudhry et al and the Children's Hospital Neonatal Consortium Cardiac Focus Group for the recognition and the interest in our recently published work. Moreover, we thank the authors for raising the important need for databases encompassing prenatal, neonatal, postnatal, and surgical data on patients with congenital heart defects. We agree that such databases are urgently needed in order to identify and stratify this patient population according to the risk of mortality and short-term complications such as neonatal morbidities, but also long-term complications such as neurodevelopmental disorders.
Source: The Journal of Pediatrics - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: Letters to the Editor Source Type: research