ArticlePediatric cardiology2022
Worse Hospital Outcomes for Children and Adults with COVID-19 and Congenital Heart Disease.
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- Cardiology Consult for the General Pediatrician after Cardiac Manifestations from a SARS-CoV-2 Infection.Current pediatric reviews · 2026Pooled it
- Impacts of COVID-19 on pediatric patients with congenital heart disease: a small systematic and integrative literature review.Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo · 2025Pooled it
- Risk Factors for Pediatric Critical COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society · 2024Pooled it
- Guidance for prevention and management of COVID-19 in children and adolescents: A consensus statement from the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Pediatric COVID-19 Therapies Taskforce.Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society · 2024Pooled it
- The burden and outcomes of vaccine-preventable infections among adult congenital heart disease patients: a nationwide analysis.Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center) · 2026Article
- Impact of Corrected Congenital Heart Disease on Outcomes of Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Nationwide Analysis.Journal of chest surgery · 2026Article
- Survey of Attitudes Toward Vaccination Against SARS-COV-2 in Pediatric Patients with Heart Disease.Pediatric cardiology · 2026Article
- Congenital Heart Defects and Concurrent Diagnoses in Influenza Hospitalization in the Pediatric Health Information System Study, 2004-2019.Pediatric cardiology · 2025Article
- Prevalence, Characteristics, and Outcomes of Children With Congenital Heart Disease Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery in the Presence or Absence of COVID-19 Infection During the Pandemic.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Incidence and severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccine BNT162 side effects in children and adolescents with Noonan Syndrome: a national multicentric study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- The impact of COVID-19 vaccination on patients with congenital heart disease in England: a case-control study.Heart (British Cardiac Society) · 2024Article
- How long elective surgery should be delayed from COVID-19 infection in pediatric patients?Journal of anesthesia · 2024Article
- Congenital anomalies and predisposition to severe COVID-19 among pediatric patients in the United States.Pediatric research · 2024Article
- Trends in mortality risk of patients with congenital heart disease during the COVID-19 pandemic.American heart journal · 2024Article
- Risk Factors for Pediatric Critical COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Clinical risk associated with COVID-19 among 86000 patients with congenital heart disease.Open heart · 2023Article
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- COVID-19 in congenital heart disease (COaCHeD) study.Open heart · 2023Article
- Impact of congenital heart disease on outcomes among pediatric patients hospitalized for COVID-19 infection.BMC pediatrics · 2023Article
- Arrhythmia and COVID-19 in children.Clinical and experimental pediatrics · 2023Article
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Abstract
The aim of the current study is to investigate hospitalization outcomes of COVID-19 positive children and adults with moderate or severe congenital heart disease to children and adults without congenital heart disease. Retrospective review using the Vizient Clinical Data Base for admissions of patients with an ICD-10 code for COVID-19 from April 2020 to March 2021. Admissions with COVID-19 and with and without moderate or severe congenital heart disease (CHD) were stratified into pediatric (< 18 years) and adult (≥ 18 years) and hospital outcomes were compared. There were 9478 pediatric COVID-19 admissions, 160 (1.7%) with CHD, and 658,230 adult COVID-19 admissions, 389 (0.06%) with CHD. Pediatric admissions with COVID-19 and CHD were younger (1 vs 11 years), had longer length of stay (22 vs 6 days), higher complication rates (6.9 vs 1.1%), higher mortality rates (3.8, 0.8%), and higher costs ($54,619 vs 10,731; p < 0.001 for all). Adult admissions with COVID-19 and CHD were younger (53 vs 64 years, p < 0.001), had longer length of stay (12 vs 9 days, p < 0.001), higher complication rates (8 vs 4.8%, p = 0.003), and higher costs ($23,551 vs 13,311, p < 0.001). This appears to be the first study to report the increased hospital morbidities and costs for patients with CHD affected by COVID-19. Our hope is that these findings will help counsel patients moving forward during the pandemic.
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