Cohort study reveals reduced 36-month survival after neonatal cardiac surgery with an impaired maternal-foetal environment, highlighting prenatal impacts on long-term surgical prognosis.
An impaired MFE is common in pregnancies in which the foetus has congenital heart disease. After cardiac surgery in neonates, the presence of an impaired MFE was associated with lower survival at 36 months of age for the entire cohort and for the subgroup with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
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