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A systematic review of early motor interventions for infants with congenital heart disease and open-heart surgery.
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- Neurodevelopmental care across pediatric critical care settings: toward brain-focused critical care.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Review
- Early Motor Interventions in Infants and Young Children: A Comprehensive Scoping Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Impact of Primary Graft Dysfunction on Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
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- Exploring parental perspectives of physiotherapy in children with congenital heart disease: a qualitative study.BMJ paediatrics open · 2025Article
- Factors Influencing Prolonged Hospital Stay in Surgically Treated Children and Adolescents with Left-to-Right Shunt Congenital Heart Disease: Evidence From a Hospital in Southern China.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2025Article
- The implementation of EMI-Heart, a family-tailored early motor intervention in infants with complex congenital heart disease, in practice: a feasibility RCT.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2024Article
- A case report of spastic diplegic cerebral palsy in a late preterm child with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.Translational pediatrics · 2024Article
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundMotor development delay is the first neurodevelopmental impairment that becomes apparent in infants with congenital heart disease (CHD). Early interventions have addressed high-risk groups like infants born preterm, but little is known about interventions to improve motor outcome in CHD infants at risk of motor delay. The purpose of this review was to systematically review the literature on type and effect of motor intervention applied during the first year of life in infants with CHD following open-heart surgery.
methodsScoping searches were performed in May 2020 and April 2023 via MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, Cochrane, PsycINFO, PEDro, and Scopus. The review included studies published in English from 2015 to 2022. Primary outcome was infants' motor development measured by standardized and non-standardized motor assessments, and if available, infants' language and cognitive development, and any parental quality-of-life assessments as secondary outcomes. The studies' quality was evaluated with a modified Newcastle-Ottawa scale.
resultsFour papers with low to high methodological quality met inclusion criteria. All studies investigated the influence of early physiotherapy. Four studies involved parents, and three studies used standardized tools to assess motor outcomes. No conclusion can be drawn about any positive effect of early motor interventions.
conclusionsEarly motor intervention in CHD infants may improve motor development; however, the few existing studies do not provide clear evidence. Thus, more prospective early intervention studies are needed.
trial registrationPROSPERO CRD42020200981.
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