Christine M Riley, Christopher W Mastropietro, Peter Sassalos, Jason R Buckley, John M Costello, Ilias Iliopoulos, Aimee Jennings, Katherine Cashen, Sukumar Suguna Narasimhulu, Keshava M N Gowda, Arthur J Smerling, Michael Wilhelm, Aditya Badheka, Adnan Bakar, Elizabeth A S Moser, Venu Amula
BACKGROUND: Elevated pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) is common following repair of truncus arteriosus. Inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) is an effective yet costly therapy that is frequently implemented postoperatively to manage elevated PVR. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to describe practice patterns of iNO use in a multicenter cohort of patients who underwent repair of truncus arteriosus, a lesion in which recovery is often complicated by elevated PVR. We also sought to identify patient and center factors that were more commonly associated with the use of iNO in the postoperative period...
November 2019: Congenital Heart Disease