Leda Klouda1, Wayne J. Franklin1, Anita Saraf1,2, Dhaval R. Parekh1, David D. Schwartz3
Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.12, No.1, pp. 91-98, 2017
Abstract Objective: Congenital heart disease (CHD) can affect the developing central nervous system,
resulting in neurocognitive and behavioral deficits. Preoperative neurological abnormalities as well
as sequelae of the open heart operations required to correct structural abnormalities of the heart
contribute to these deficits. There are few studies examining the neurocognitive functioning of
adults with CHD. This study sought to investigate multiple domains of neurocognitive functioning
in adult survivors of CHD who had childhood cardiac surgery with either moderate or severe disease complexity.
Design: A total of 48 adults (18–49 years of age) who had undergone cardiac surgery for CHD
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