1.1 Patient characteristics
The current study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the
Shanghai Children’s Medical Center affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong
University School of Medicine. As the study design was a retrospective
review of prospectively collected data the need for informed consent was
waived. From January 2017 to June 2019, 9354 cases with congenital heart
disease (CHD) were undergone open-heart surgery in SCMC and 441 were
neonates,27 cases required support postoperatively (26 VA-ECMO cases, 1
ventricular assist device case). The ventricular assist device infant
and three children supported with ECMO less than 24h were excluded, and
23 patients (15 male, 8 female) was analyzed. Mean age was 9.08 ± 8.02
days (range: 0–25 days) and mean birth weight was 3170 ± 535 g (range,
2300–4500 g). The diseases were IAA/COA (n = 10), D-TGA (n = 8), PA (n
= 2), TAPVC (n = 1), DORV (n=1), and coronary artery-right ventricular
fistula (n = 1).