Pediatr Crit Care Me
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Mar 2008
Critical heart disease in the neonate: presentation and outcome at a tertiary care center.
To define the modes of presentation, incidence of major organ dysfunction, predictors of hospital mortality, and adverse outcomes in neonates with critical heart disease admitted to a tertiary care center. ⋯ In patients with complex congenital heart disease, including nearly half with single ventricle heart disease, neonatal hospital mortality was 7%. These patients have a high frequency of multiple congenital anomalies, genetic syndromes, low birth weight, and prolonged length of stay.