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ReviewFrontiers in pediatrics2015

Decision-Making for Surgery in the Management of Patients with Univentricular Heart.

Ryan Robert Davies, Christian Pizarro

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Review in Frontiers in pediatrics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Long-term survival and complications of Fontan patients: where do we stand?American journal of cardiovascular disease · 2026
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  3. Article
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  7. Review
  8. Editorial: Univentricular Heart.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2015
    Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ryan Robert DaviesNemours Cardiac Center, A. I. duPont Hospital for Children , Wilmington, DE , USA ; Thomas Jefferson University , Philadelphia, PA , USA.
Christian PizarroNemours Cardiac Center, A. I. duPont Hospital for Children , Wilmington, DE , USA ; Thomas Jefferson University , Philadelphia, PA , USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A series of technical refinements over the past 30 years, in combination with advances in perioperative management, have resulted in dramatic improvements in the survival of patients with univentricular heart. While the goal of single-ventricle palliation remains unchanged - normalization of the pressure and volume loads on the systemic ventricle, the strategies to achieve that goal have become more diverse. Optimal palliation relies on a thorough understanding of the changing physiology over the first years of life and the risks and consequences of each palliative strategy. This review describes how to optimize surgical decision-making in univentricular patients based on a current understanding of anatomy, physiology, and surgical palliation.

Indexed as

aortopulmonary shuntBlalock–Taussig procedurecongenital heart diseaseFontan procedurehemi-Fontan procedurepalliationsingle ventricleuniventricular heart

Identifiers

PMID26284226
PMCPMC4515559

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