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Investigators from University Children’s Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland, and University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland, conducted a prospective cohort study to assess growth and IQ in children with congenital heart disease (CHD) who underwent cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) surgery in infancy. Study participants were patients undergoing CPB surgery in the first year of life at University Children’s Hospital Zurich. Children with a recognizable genetic or phenotypic syndrome and those with a birth weight <2,000 g were excluded. Data on the type of CHD and clinical course during and after CPB surgery were collected. The birth records of study patients were reviewed and data on weight, length, and head circumference (HC) abstracted. Anthropometric measurements were repeated just prior to surgery and at 1, 4, …
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