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Volume 357:1971-1973 November 8, 2007 Number 19
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Congenital Heart Disease and Brain Injury
Michael V. Johnston, M.D.

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During the past 25 years, remarkable progress has been made in the surgical treatment and survival of infants with congenital heart disease.1 Recent data have shown that in-hospital death rates for neonates were less than 10% for the treatment of transposition of the great arteries with the arterial-switch procedure and less than 20% for the treatment of hypoplastic left heart syndrome with aortic arch reconstruction using the Norwood procedure.2 Before the development of the Norwood procedure in 1980, the vast majority of infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome died.3

On the other hand, several studies have shown that many children . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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From the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine — both in Baltimore.



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