ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2024
Preoperative Malnutrition Increases Risk of In-Hospital Mortality, Major Infection, and Longer Intensive Care Unit Stay After Ventricular Septal Defect Closure.
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- The impacts of energy and protein provision on anthropometric changes in infants with critical congenital heart disease.Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition · 2026Article
- Achieving Protein Requirements Through Oral Feeding in Children with Congenital Heart Disease: A Narrative Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- The Naples Prognostic Score Is Independently Associated with Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation: A Retrospective Case-Control Study.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2026Article
- Timing of Intervention and Long-Term Outcomes in Mild Congenital Heart Disease: A 35-Year Study From the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium.Circulation. Cardiovascular interventions · 2026Article
- Predictors of Mortality in Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Units: A Systematic Review and Exploratory Meta-Analysis.Cureus · 2026Review
- Anthropometric Exclusions in Pediatric Clinical Trials: Implications for Medication Dosing in Malnourished Children.Journal of clinical pharmacology · 2026Article
- Prevalence and outcomes of postoperative infection among pediatric congenital heart disease patients in intensive care units: a single center retrospective study.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Association between admission undernutrition and mortality rates and adverse outcomes in a pediatric intensive care unit in India: a prospective cohort study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Screening modality matters: heterogeneous nutritional status, disease complexity in children with congenital heart disease detected through active versus passive surveillance.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Assessing malnutrition in cerebral palsy patients and its impact on complications following spinal fusion.Spine deformity · 2025Article
- The Association Between Preoperative Malnutrition and Early Postoperative Outcomes in Children with Congenital Heart Disease: A 2-Year Retrospective Study at a Lebanese Tertiary Medical Center.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Associations With Adverse Postoperative Outcomes in Children Undergoing Atrial Septal Defect Closure in Lower-Resource Settings.JACC. Advances · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundHigh energy requirements and poor feeding can lead to growth failure in patients with ventricular septal defect (VSD), but effects of preoperative malnutrition on surgical outcomes are poorly understood, especially in low-resource settings. METHODS AND
resultsWe analyzed a cohort of children <5 years of age undergoing VSD closure at 60 global centers participating in the International Quality Improvement Collaborative for Congenital Heart Disease, 2015 to 2020. We calculated adjusted odds ratios (ORs) for in-hospital death and major infection and adjusted coefficients for duration of intensive care unit stay for 4 measures of malnutrition: severe wasting (weight-for-height
conclusionsMalnutrition was associated with mortality, infection, and longer intensive care unit stay in a global cohort of children undergoing VSD closure.
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