Assessment of Growth 6 Years after the Norwood Procedure

Phillip T Burch; Chitra Ravishankar; Jane W Newburger; Linda M Lambert; Victoria L Pemberton; Suzanne Granger; Alejandro A Floh; Jeffrey B Anderson; Garick D Hill; Kevin D Hill; Matthew E Oster; Alan B Lewis; Kurt R Schumacher; Sinai C Zyblewski; Ryan R Davies; Jeffrey P Jacobs; Wyman W Lai; L LuAnn Minich; Pediatric Heart Network Investigators

doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2016.09.048

Assessment of Growth 6 Years after the Norwood Procedure

J Pediatr. 2017 Jan:180:270-274.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2016.09.048. Epub 2016 Nov 14.

Authors

Phillip T Burch¹, Chitra Ravishankar², Jane W Newburger³, Linda M Lambert⁴, Victoria L Pemberton⁵, Suzanne Granger⁶, Alejandro A Floh⁷, Jeffrey B Anderson⁸, Garick D Hill⁹, Kevin D Hill¹⁰, Matthew E Oster¹¹, Alan B Lewis¹², Kurt R Schumacher¹³, Sinai C Zyblewski¹⁴, Ryan R Davies¹⁵, Jeffrey P Jacobs¹⁶, Wyman W Lai¹⁷, L LuAnn Minich¹⁸; Pediatric Heart Network Investigators

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Surgery, Primary Children's Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. Electronic address: Phillip.Burch@hsc.utah.edu.
² The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.
³ Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
⁴ Departments of Surgery, Primary Children's Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
⁵ National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
⁶ New England Research Institutes, Watertown, MA.
⁷ The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁸ University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
⁹ The Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
¹⁰ Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
¹¹ Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
¹² Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
¹³ University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI.
¹⁴ Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
¹⁵ Nemours/A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE.
¹⁶ Johns Hopkins All Children's Heart Institute, Orlando, FL.
¹⁷ Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY.
¹⁸ Departments of Pediatrics, Primary Children's Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.

Abstract

At 6 years of age, patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome had mean age-adjusted z-scores for weight and height below the normative population, and body mass index was similar to the normative population. Males had the greatest increase in z-scores for body mass index.

Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00115934.

Keywords: growth; hypoplastic left heart syndrome; pediatrics; risk factors.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Body Height
Body Mass Index
Body Weight
Child
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Growth*
Humans
Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome / surgery*
Infant, Newborn
Male
Norwood Procedures*
Time Factors

Associated data

ClinicalTrials.gov/NCT00115934

Abstract

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