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Predicting long-term mortality after Fontan procedures: A risk score based on 6707 patients from 28 studies

Tarek Alsaied¹, Jouke P. Bokma², Mark E. Engel³, Joey M. Kuijpers², Samuel P. Hanke¹, Liesl Zuhlke⁴, Bin Zhang⁵, Gruschen R. Veldtman⁶

1 Children’s Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
2 Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands, Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
3 Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, The Cardiac Clinic, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
4 Department of Pediatrics, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
5 Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
6 Adolescent and Adult Congenital Program, Children’s Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

* Corresponding Author: Gruschen R. Veldtman, Professor of Pediatrics, Adolescent and Adult Congenital Program, Children’s Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA. Email: