Arene Butto1, Laura Mercer‐Rosa1, Christopher Teng1, Carrie Daymont2, Jonathan Edelson1, Jennifer Faerber1, Erika Mejia1, Chitra Ravishankar1, Meryl S. Cohen1
Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.14, No.6, pp. 1058-1065, 2019, DOI:10.1111/chd.12843
Abstract Objective: Children with single ventricle cardiac disease (SVCD) have poor growth in
early life. Tube‐assisted feeding (TF) is used to improve weight gain, but its impact on
long‐term growth remains unknown. We sought to compare the longitudinal growth
of SVCD patients receiving TF after initial cardiac surgery with those fed entirely by
mouth.
Design: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of SVCD patients who under‐
went initial surgical palliation between 1999 and 2009. We defined TF as the use of
nasogastric, gastrostomy, or jejunostomy TF. We compared maximal attained growth
z‐scores for each year of life between TF and non‐TF… More >
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