Eliana Al Haddad1*, Damien J. LaPar1*, Jeffrey Dayton2, Elizabeth H. Stephens1, Emile Bacha1
Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.13, No.6, pp. 997-1004, 2018, DOI:10.1111/chd.12666
Abstract Background: Congenital heart defects affect nearly 1% of all children born per year
in the United States, and complete atrioventricular canal (CAVC) accounts for 2%‐9%.
While several patch materials have been used for septal defect closure during CAVC
repair, clear superiority of one material over another has yet to be established.
Methods: A retrospective review of clinical outcomes following CAVC repair at
Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital/Columbia University was performed on opera‐
tions conducted from March 2010 to September 2017. Univariate and Kaplan‐Meir
survival analyses were utilized to evaluate primary outcomes of interest following
CAVC repair in the modern surgical era.
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