Objective: The aim was to develop a consensus-based method of risk adjustment for in-
hospital mortality among children younger than 18 years after surgery for congenital heart …

The types of cardiac and visceral anomalies of 146 autopsied cases of polysplenia are
described. One hundred and five of these cases were from the literature and the other 41 …

More than 600,000 children in the United States have a congenital or acquired cardiac
abnormality, and millions more are at risk of developing atherosclerotic disease in …

Background Ventricular arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death late after repair of tetralogy of
Fallot are devastating complications in adult survivors of early surgery, but their prediction …

Late cardiovascular complications after operative repair of coarctation of the aorta include
systemic hypertension, premature coronary artery disease, aortic valve abnormalities, aortic …

Successful nonsurgical treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding and arteriovenous
malformations by embolization techniques has been previously documented. 1) …

After a visit by Herbert Simon to the University of Minnesota in 1972, Paul Johnson (then a
professor of educational psychology at the Center for Research in Human Learning) and …

Tetralogy of Fallot became a correctable malformation on August 31, 1954, and from that
data through 1960, 106 patients (ages 4 months-45 years) who underwent open repairs at …

Background: Congenital heart surgery has improved the survival of patients with even the
most complex defects, but the long-term survival after these procedures has not been fully …

The well-recognized association of congenital cardiac disease with asplenia has been
termed" bilateral right-sidedness" or dextro-isomerism, since the spleen is absent, the liver is …