Long-Term Risk of Heart Failure-Related Death and Heart Transplant After Congenital Heart Surgery in Childhood (from the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium)

We aimed to describe the longitudinal risk of advanced heart failure (HF) leading to death, heart transplantation, or ventricular assist device (VAD) placement after congenital heart surgery (CHS) and how it varies across the spectrum of congenital heart disease. We linked the records of patients who underwent first CHS in the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium between 1982 and 2003 with the United States National Death Index and Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network databases. Primary outcome was time from CHS discharge to HF-related death, heart transplant, or VAD placement, analyzed with proportional hazards models accounting for competing mortality.

Source: The American Journal of Cardiology - January 3, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Lydia K. Wright, Rachel Zmora, Yijian Huang, Matthew E. Oster, Courtney McCracken, William T. Mahle, Lazaros Kochilas, Andreas Kalogeropoulos Source Type: research