ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2023
Human Milk Feeding and Direct Breastfeeding Improve Outcomes for Infants With Single Ventricle Congenital Heart Disease: Propensity Score-Matched Analysis of the NPC-QIC Registry.
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- Preoperative Nutrition-Based Interventions in Children Undergoing Cardiac Surgeries-A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2026Pooled it
- Breastfeeding infants with CHD: an evidence summary and recommendations from the Cardiac Newborn Neuroprotective Network, a special interest group of the Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Outcome Collaborative.Cardiology in the young · 2025Guideline
- Human milk and breastfeeding support in United States paediatric cardiac ICUs: a multicentre cohort and survey study.Cardiology in the young · 2026Article
- Cardiovascular development of critically ill neonates on mother's milk.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- Human milk and breastfeeding at the first oral feed for infants with critical congenital heart disease: a multi-institutional study.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026Article
- Oral care with human milk is associated with increased human milk feeding and breastfeeding for newborns with critical congenital heart disease.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026Article
- Improving preoperative enteral feeding for newborns with congenital heart disease.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026Article
- Impact of breast milk composition on nutritional status of term neonates with congenital heart defects: A prospective study.World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2026Article
- Documented inpatient aspirin use and in-hospital mortality in non-HIV tuberculous meningitis: a propensity score-weighted retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Review
- The Effect of Behavioral Intervention on Maternal Breastfeeding Practice and Infant Growth in Congenital Heart Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Food science & nutrition · 2025Article
- Feeding Practices in Infants with Hematochezia and Necrotizing Enterocolitis on Acute Care Cardiology Units.Pediatric cardiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background Infants with single ventricle congenital heart disease undergo 3 staged surgeries/interventions, with risk for morbidity and mortality. We estimated the effect of human milk (HM) and direct breastfeeding on outcomes including necrotizing enterocolitis, infection-related complications, length of stay, and mortality. Methods and Results We analyzed the National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative (NPC-QIC) registry (2016-2021), examining HM/breastfeeding groups during stage 1 and stage 2 palliations. We calculated propensity scores for feeding exposures, then fitted Poisson and logistic regression models to compare outcomes between propensity-matched cohorts. Participants included 2491 infants (68 sites). Estimates for all outcomes were better in HM/breastfeeding groups. Infants fed exclusive HM before stage 1 palliation (S1P) had lower odds of preoperative necrotizing enterocolitis (odds ratio [OR], 0.37 [95% CI, 0.17-0.84];
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