Michael E Kim, Shankar Baskar, Christopher M Janson, Stephanie F Chandler, Robert D Whitehill, Audrey Dionne, Mark A Law, Yuliya Domnina, Melissa N Smith-Parrish, Geoffrey L Bird, Mousumi Banerjee, Wenying Zhang, Garrett Reichle, Kurt R Schumacher, Richard J Czosek, David Ls Morales, Jeffrey A Alten
BACKGROUND: Junctional ectopic tachycardia (JET) complicates congenital heart surgery in 2-8.3% of cases. JET is associated with postoperative morbidity in single-center studies. We utilized the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium data registry for the first multicenter epidemiologic description of treated JET. METHODS: This is a retrospective study (2/2019 - 8/2022) of patients with treated JET. INCLUSION: 1) <12 months old at index operation; 2) treated for JET <72 hours after surgery...
March 12, 2024: Annals of Thoracic Surgery