Relation of Seizures After Cardiac Surgery in Early Infancy to Neurodevelopmental Outcome
- 3 March 1998
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 97 (8), 773-779
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.97.8.773
Abstract
Background—The outcome of infants who have transient seizures after open heart surgery has not been studied. Using the database of the Boston Circulatory Arrest Study involving 171 children with D-transposition of the great arteries, we explored the relationship between early postoperative clinical and EEG seizures and neurodevelopmental outcomes at ages 1 and 21/2 years. Methods and Results—At 1 year, children returned for developmental and neurological evaluations and MRI. Parent-completed developmental questionnaires were collected at 2 1/2 years of age. At 1 year, children with early postoperative seizures had lower Psychomotor Development Index (motor function) scores (clinical seizures: 12.9 mean difference [MD]; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.2 to 23.6; P=.02; EEG seizures: 13.3 MD; 95% CI, 6.8 to 19.7; P<.001). Mental Developmental Index scores of children with clinical or EEG seizures were also lower, but the differences were not statistically significant. Infants with seizures were more likely ...Keywords
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