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Does prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease improve survival, length of hospitalization, and costs in neonates with CHD?
Does prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease improve survival, length of hospitalization, and costs in neonates with CHD?
Prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease does not significantly improve overall short-term survival, length of stay, or costs, likely due to a skew towards more severe single-ventricle physiology in prenatally diagnosed cases.
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Prenatal diagnosis does not improve overall CHD outcomes; leaves open selection bias and biventricular subgroup effects in observational cohorts.
Copel et al. (1997) studied this question.
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