Jürgen Hörer, Emre Belli, Régine Roussin, Emanuel LeBret, Mohamed Ly, Jarrah Abdullah, Raffaella Marzullo, Martina Strbad, Julie Cleuziou, Jelena Pabst von Ohain, Rüdiger Lange
BACKGROUND: The Adult Congenital Heart Surgery (ACHS) score was derived from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. The score was validated with data of 1,603 operations and reached a good predictive power. We sought to evaluate its predictive power on 1,654 operations performed in 2 European centers. METHODS: Data of all consecutive patients aged 18 years or more, who underwent surgery for congenital heart disease between 2004 and 2013 at Center 1 (n=830), and between 2005 and 2016 at Center 2 (n=824), were collected...
February 1, 2018: Annals of Thoracic Surgery