1. Fetal Diagnosis is Associated with Improved Perioperative Condition of Neonates Requiring Surgical Intervention for Coarctation
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Lindsay Mills, Alyssa Power, Deborah Fruitman, Mohammad Mehdi Houshmandi, Luke Eckersley, and Lisa K. Hornberger
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medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Coarctation of the aorta ,Prenatal diagnosis ,Perioperative ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Vascular surgery ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,Cardiac surgery ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,030225 pediatrics ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,medicine ,Risk factor ,medicine.symptom ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Fetal echocardiography ,Acidosis - Abstract
To define the relative importance of fetal diagnosis and comorbidities in severity of preoperative compromise, outcomes and hospitalization in neonatal coarctation of the aorta (CoA). Retrospective comparison of preoperative condition and postoperative course of neonates prenatally (PreDx n = 48) or postnatally diagnosed (PostDx n = 67) with CoA. Congenital and non-congenital comorbidities were adjusted for. Postnatal diagnosis was associated with preoperative mortality (n = 2), and severe acidosis (lactate > 5 mM or pH
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- 2021