In the first national study of this issue, a team of University of Michigan physician researchers found that infants with specific complex heart defects are much less likely to die before leaving the hospital if they are treated at centers that treat the largest number of these patients. The study was based on data from the 2003 Kids’ Inpatient Database that includes information on children hospitalized in thirty-six (36) states. They analyzed data for two of the most severe congenital heart defects: transposition of great arteries (TGA) in which the major blood vessels leading between the heart and lungs are switched and hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) in which the left side of the heart does not develop properly.
To read the entire article published in a University of Michigan Health System press release, please click on the following link:
http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2007/hmcongenheart.htm
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