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Dorobantu DM, Huang Q, Espuny Pujol F, Brown KL, Franklin RC, Pufulete M, Lawlor DA, Crowe S, Pagel C, Stoica SC. Hospital resource utilization in a national cohort of functionally single ventricle patients undergoing surgical treatment. JTCVS OPEN 2023; 14:441-461. [PMID: 37425480 PMCID: PMC10329026 DOI: 10.1016/j.xjon.2023.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2022] [Revised: 02/22/2023] [Accepted: 03/27/2023] [Indexed: 07/11/2023]
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Objective The study objective was to provide a detailed overview of health resource use from birth to 18 years old for patients with functionally single ventricles and identify associated risk factors. Methods All patients with functionally single ventricles treated between 2000 and 2017 in England and Wales were linked to hospital and outpatient records using data from the Linking AUdit and National datasets in Congenital HEart Services project. Hospital stay was described in yearly age intervals, and associated risk factors were explored using quantile regression. Results A total of 3037 patients with functionally single ventricles were included, 1409 (46.3%) undergoing a Fontan procedure. During the first year of life, the median days spent in hospital was 60 (interquartile range, 37-102), mostly inpatient days, mirroring a mortality of 22.8%. This decreases to between 2 and 9 in-hospital days/year afterward. Between 2 and 18 years, most hospital days were outpatient, with a median of 1 to 5 days/year. Lower age at the first procedure, hypoplastic left heart syndrome/mitral atresia, unbalanced atrioventricular septal defect, preterm birth, congenital/acquired comorbidities, additional cardiac risk factors, and severity of illness markers were associated with fewer days at home and more intensive care unit days in the first year of life. Only markers of early severe illness were associated with fewer days at home in the first 6 months after the Fontan procedure. Conclusions Hospital resource use in functionally single ventricle cases is not uniform, decreasing 10-fold during adolescence compared with the first year of life. There are subsets of patients with worse outcomes during their first year of life or with persistently high hospital use throughout their childhood, which could be the target of future research.
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- Dan-Mihai Dorobantu
- Children's Health and Exercise Research Centre, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
- Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- University Hospitals Bristol and Weston National Health Service Foundation Trust, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Clinical Operational Research Unit, Department of Mathematics, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Clinical Operational Research Unit, Department of Mathematics, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Cardiac and Critical Care Division, Great Ormond Street Hospital National Health Service Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Royal Brompton and Harefield National Health Service Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Bristol Heart Institute, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Bristol National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Clinical Operational Research Unit, Department of Mathematics, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Clinical Operational Research Unit, Department of Mathematics, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- University Hospitals Bristol and Weston National Health Service Foundation Trust, Bristol, United Kingdom
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Kosiv KA, Long J, Lee HC, Collins RT. A validated model for prediction of survival to 6 months in patients with trisomy 13 and 18. Am J Med Genet A 2021; 185:806-813. [PMID: 33403783 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.62044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2020] [Revised: 11/10/2020] [Accepted: 12/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Congenital heart disease is exceedingly prevalent in trisomy 13 and 18. Improved survival following congenital heart surgery has been reported, however, mortality remains significantly elevated. Utilizing inpatient data on trisomy 13 and 18 from the 2003-2016 Pediatric Health Information System database, a survival model was developed and validated using data from the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative and the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. The study cohort included 1,761 infants with trisomy 13 and 18. Two models predicting survival to 6 months of age were developed and tested. The initial model performed excellently, with a c-statistic of 0.87 and a c-statistic of 0.76 in the validation cohort. After excluding procedures performed on the day of death, the revised model's c-statistic was 0.76. Certain variables, including cardiac surgery, gastrostomy, parenteral nutrition, and mechanical ventilation, are predictive of survival to 6 months of age. This study presents a model, which potentially can inform decision-making regarding congenital heart surgery.
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- Katherine A Kosiv
- Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA.,Department of Internal Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
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Higher Incidence of Protein-Losing Enteropathy in Patients with Single Systemic Right Ventricle. Pediatr Cardiol 2021; 42:178-181. [PMID: 32975605 PMCID: PMC7867645 DOI: 10.1007/s00246-020-02468-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2020] [Accepted: 09/16/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Patients with single ventricle congenital heart disease are at risk of unpredictable protein-losing enteropathy (PLE) after surgical palliation. Based on prior reports of physiologic differences for patients with single morphologic right versus left ventricles, we hypothesized that those with right ventricular morphology would have a higher incidence of PLE. We performed a retrospective review of > 15 million pediatric hospitalizations from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project KID 2000-2012 databases for admissions 5-21 years old with ICD-9 codes for hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) and tricuspid atresia (TA) with and without PLE. Incidence of PLE was compared between those with HLHS and TA. In addition, outcomes and costs were compared between admissions with and without PLE and between HLHS and TA. Of 1623 HLHS admissions, 289 (17.8%) had PLE, and of 926 TA admissions, 58 (5.9%) had PLE (p < 0.001). Admissions with PLE were older compared to those without PLE (12 vs 10 years, p < 0.001) and PLE onset occurred at a younger age for HLHS than TA (11 vs 14 years, p < 0.001). There were no differences in hospital outcomes or costs. Review of this large administrative database suggests a higher incidence of PLE in patients with HLHS and a younger age of onset compared to those with TA. These data suggest that a single systemic right ventricle may be an independent risk factor for developing PLE.
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Broda CR, Downing TE, John AS. Diagnosis and management of the adult patient with a failing Fontan circulation. Heart Fail Rev 2020; 25:633-646. [DOI: 10.1007/s10741-020-09932-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Bukhari S, Desai M, Sinha L, Yerebakan C. Failing Fontan assist: From tissue to turbine. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2018; 156:1947-1948. [PMID: 30336923 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2018.08.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2018] [Accepted: 08/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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- Syed Bukhari
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's National Heart Institute, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's National Heart Institute, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's National Heart Institute, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's National Heart Institute, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC.
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The need for population-based studies of adults with CHD has motivated the growing use of secondary analyses of administrative health data in a variety of jurisdictions worldwide. We aimed at systematically reviewing all studies using administrative health data sources for adult CHD research from 2006 to 2016. Using PubMed and Embase (1 January, 2006 to 1 January, 2016), we identified 2217 abstracts, from which 59 studies were included in this review. These comprised 12 different data sources from six countries. Of these, 55% originated in the United States of America, 28% in Canada, and 17% in Europe and Asia. No study was published before 2007, after which the number of publications grew exponentially. In all, 41% of the studies were cross-sectional and 25% were retrospective cohort studies with a wide variation in the availability of patient-level compared with hospitalisation-level episodes of care; 58% of studies from eight different data sources linked administrative data at a patient level; and 37% of studies reported validation procedures. Assessing resource utilisation and temporal trends of relevant epidemiological and outcome end points were the most reported objectives. The median impact factor of publication journals was 4.04, with an interquartile range of 3.15, 7.44. Although not designed for research purposes, administrative health databases have become powerful data sources for studying adult CHD populations because of their large sample sizes, comprehensive records, and long observation periods, providing a useful tool to further develop quality of care improvement programmes. Data linkage with electronic records will become important in obtaining more granular life-long adult CHD data. The health services nature of the data optimises the impact on policy and public health.
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Broda CR, Taylor DA, Adachi I. Progress in experimental and clinical subpulmonary assistance for Fontan circulation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2018; 156:1949-1956. [PMID: 29884497 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2018.04.102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2017] [Revised: 04/09/2018] [Accepted: 04/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- Christopher R Broda
- Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Tex.
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- Regenerative Medicine Research, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Tex
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- Department of Congenital Heart Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Tex
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Egbe A, Khan AR, Al-Otaibi M, Said SM, Connolly HM. Outcomes of hospitalization in adults with Fontan palliation: The Mayo Clinic experience. Am Heart J 2018; 198:115-122. [PMID: 29653632 DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2017.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2017] [Accepted: 12/17/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The outcomes of hospitalization in the Fontan population have not been specifically studied. The purpose of this study was to describe outcomes of hospitalization (frequency and indications for hospitalization, and in-hospital mortality) in this population and to determine how these outcomes differ from those of other adults with congenital heart disease (CHD). METHODS This was a retrospective study of adult Fontan patients hospitalized at Mayo Clinic Rochester in 1990-2015. We selected age- and gender-matched control group of patients with repaired CHD and biventricular circulation hospitalized within the study period. RESULTS A total of 367 Fontan patients (age 31±7 years and 259 [71%] with atriopulmonary Fontan) had 853 hospital admissions in 4 years (58 hospitalizations per 100 patient-years). The most common indications were arrhythmia (n=188, 22%), heart failure (n=169, 20%), and cardiac surgery (n=133, 16%). Overall in-hospital mortality was 4% (n=38), and the highest in-hospital mortality occurred in patients hospitalized for cardiac surgery (n=15, 11%) and heart failure (n=13, 8%). In comparison to the repaired CHD and biventricular circulation group, the Fontan group had more frequent hospitalizations (22 vs 58 per 100 patient-years, P<.001) and higher overall in-hospital mortality (1% vs 5%, P<.001), mortality after cardiac surgery (2% vs 11%, P=.01), and mortality for heart failure-related hospitalizations (2% vs 8%, P=.04). CONCLUSIONS Adults with Fontan palliation had more frequent hospitalization and in-hospital mortality compared to the rest of the CHD population. Arrhythmia and heart failure were the most common indications for hospitalization. Perhaps optimal management of heart failure and arrhythmia may improve outcomes in this population.
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Collins RT, Doshi P, Onukwube J, Fram RY, Robbins JM. Risk Factors for Increased Hospital Resource Utilization and In-Hospital Mortality in Adults With Single Ventricle Congenital Heart Disease. Am J Cardiol 2016; 118:453-62. [PMID: 27291967 DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2016.05.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2015] [Revised: 05/04/2016] [Accepted: 05/04/2016] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Most patients with single ventricle congenital heart disease are now expected to survive to adulthood. Co-morbid medical conditions (CMCs) are common. We sought to identify risk factors for increased hospital resource utilization and in-hospital mortality in adults with single ventricle. We analyzed data from the 2001 to 2011 Nationwide Inpatient Sample database in patients aged ≥18 years admitted to nonteaching general hospitals (NTGHs), TGHs, and pediatric hospitals (PHs) with either hypoplastic left heart syndrome, tricuspid atresia or common ventricle. National estimates of hospitalizations were calculated. Elixhauser CMCs were identified. Length of stay (LOS), total hospital costs, and effect of CMCs were determined. Age was greater in NTGH (41.5 ± 1.3 years) than in TGH (32.8 ± 0.5) and PH (25.0 ± 0.6; p <0.0001). Adjusted LOS was shorter in NTGH (5.6 days) than in PH (9.7 days; p <0.0001). Adjusted costs were higher in PH ($56,671) than in TGH ($31,934) and NTGH ($18,255; p <0.0001). CMCs are associated with increased LOS (p <0.0001) and costs (p <0.0001). Risk factors for in-hospital mortality included increasing age (odds ratio [OR] 5.250, CI 2.825 to 9.758 for 45- to 64-year old vs 18- to 30-year old), male gender (OR 2.72, CI 1.804 to 4.103]), and the presence of CMC (OR 4.55, CI 2.193 to 9.436) for 2 vs none). No differences in mortality were found among NTGH, TGH, and PH. Cardiovascular procedures were more common in PH hospitalizations and were associated with higher costs and LOS. CMCs increase costs and mortality. In-hospital mortality is increased with age, male gender, and the presence of hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
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Seckeler MD, Thomas ID, Andrews J, Joiner K, Klewer SE. A review of the economics of adult congenital heart disease. Expert Rev Pharmacoecon Outcomes Res 2016; 16:85-96. [DOI: 10.1586/14737167.2016.1140575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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