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ECHSA Published Studies

 

Combining Congenital Heart Surgical and Interventional Cardiology Outcome Data in a single Database: The Development of a patient–centred collaboration of The European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association (ECHSA) and The Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC)
Jacobs JP, Krasemann T, Herbst C, Tobota Z, Maruszewski B, Fragata J, Ebels T, Vida VL, Mattila I, Kansy A, Asfour B, Hörer J, Lotto AA, Çiçek MS, Liuba P, Dittrich S, Chessa M, Bökenkamp R, Sharland G, Hanséus K, Blom NA, Sarris GE.
World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2023 Jul;14(4):464-473.
PMID: 37410599, PMCID: PMC10411030
DOI: 10.1177/21501351231168829
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Cardiol Young. 2023 Jul;33(7):1043-1059. Epub 2023 Aug 22.
PMID: 37605816.
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951123001427
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TGA + IVS + LVOTO: patterns of practice and outcomes
Esmaeil H, Jacobs JP, Tchervenkov CI, Kansy A, Maruszewski B, Tobota Z, St Louis JD, Kirklin JK, Overman DM, Vida V, Herbst C, Ashfaq A, Al-Halees Z, Sarris GE.
Cardiol Young. 2023 Mar;33(3):342-348. Epub 2023 Feb 17.
PMID: 36799034.
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951122003924
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Ten Years of Data Verification: The European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association Congenital Database Audits
Herbst C, Tobota Z, Urganci E, Sarris G, Jacobs JP, Kansy A, Maruszewski B.
World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2022 Jul;13(4):466-474.
PMID: 35757953.
DOI: 10.1177/21501351221103794

 

Benchmarking in Congenital Heart Surgery Using Machine Learning-Derived Optimal Classification Trees
Bertsimas D, Zhuo D, Levine J, Dunn J, Tobota Z, Maruszewski B, Fragata J, Sarris GE.
World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2022 Jan;13(1):23-35.
PMID: 34783609
DOI: 10.1177/21501351211051227 
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Risk evaluation in adult congenital heart surgery: analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database risk models on data from the European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association Congenital Database
Pabst von Ohain J, Sarris G, Tobota Z, Maruszewski B, Vida VL, Hörer J.
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2021 Dec 1;60(6):1397-1404. 
PMID: 34058002
DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezab229
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Adverse Outcomes Prediction for Congenital Heart Surgery: A Machine Learning Approach
Bertsimas D, Zhuo D, Dunn J, Levine J, Zuccarelli E, Smyrnakis N, Tobota Z, Maruszewski B, Fragata J, Sarris GE.
World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2021 Jul;12(4):453-60.
PMID: 33908836
DOI: 10.1177/21501351211007 
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Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Patterns of Practice and Outcomes in Europe and China: An Analysis of the European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association Congenital Heart Surgery Database
Herbst C, Zhang H, Hu R, Hörer J, Ono M, Vida V, Ebels T, Kansy A, Jacobs JP, Tobota Z, Maruszewski B.
CHD. 2021;16(1):17-25.
DOI: 10.32604/CHD.2021.012982
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Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Patterns of Practice and Outcomes in Japan and Europe
Hörer J, Hirata Y, Tachimori H, Ono M, Vida V, Herbst C, Kansy A, Jacobs JP, Tobota Z, Sakamoto K, Ebels T, Maruszewski B.
World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2021 May;12(3):312-319.
PMID: 33942682
DOI: 10.1177/2150135120988634



Early Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Congenital Heart Surgery Programs Across the World: Assessment by a Global Multi-Societal Consortium
Protopapas EM, Rito ML, Vida VL, Sarris GE, Tchervenkov CI, Maruszewski BJ, Tobota Z, Zheleva B, Zhang H, Jacobs JP, Dearani JA, Stephens EH, Tweddell JS, Sandoval NF, Bacha EA, Austin EH, Sakamoto K, Talwar S, Kurosawa H, Halees ZYA, Jatene MB, Iyer KS, Lee C, Sharma R, Hirata Y, Edwin F, Cervantes JL, O'Brien J, St Louis J, Kirklin JK; COVID-19 International Congenital Heart Surgery Taskforce.
World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2020 Nov;11(6):689-696. Epub 2020 Aug 26.
PMID: 32844725 PMCID: PMC7450206
DOI: 10.1177/2150135120949462
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Surgical Management of Aorto-Ventricular Tunnel. A Multicenter Study
Protopapas EM, Anderson RH, Backer CL, Fragata J, Hakim N, Vida VL, Sarris GE; European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association-World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (ECHSA-WSPCHS) Study Group; Barron DJ, Berggren H, Hazekamp MG, Ilyin V, Kornoukhov OJ, Kostolny M, Lazarov S, Lo Rito M, Monge MC, Mykychak Y, Nosal M, Prêtre R, Polimenakos AC, Sojak V, Stellin G, Veshti A, Yemets I.
Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Summer;32(2):271-279. Epub 2020 Feb 10.
PMID: 32057970.
doi: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2020.01.011 
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Surgery for Adult Patients with Congenital Heart Disease: Results from the European Database
Vida VL, Zanotto L, Torlai Triglia L, Zanotto L, Maruszewski B, Tobota Z, Bertelli F, Cattapan C, Ebels T, Bottigliengo D, Gregori D, Sarris G, Horer J, Stellin G, Padalino MA, Di Salvo G, On The Behalf Of The European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association (ECHSA).
J Clin Med. 2020 Aug 3;9(8):2493.
PMID: 32756434; PMCID: PMC7464431.
DOI: 10.3390/jcm9082493
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Primary Pulmonary Vein Stenosis: Outcomes, Risk Factors, and Severity Score in a Multicentric Study
Kalfa D, Belli E, Bacha E, Lambert V, di Carlo D, Kostolny M, Salminen J, Nosal M, Poncelet A, Horer J, Berggren H, Yemets I, Hazekamp M, Maruszewski B, Sarris G, Pozzi M, Ebels T, Lacour-Gayet F; European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association.
Ann Thorac Surg. 2017;104:182–9.
PMID: 28633223
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.03.022
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Left-Sided Reoperations After Arterial Switch Operation: A European Multicenter Study
Vida VL, Zanotto L, Zanotto L, Stellin G; European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association (ECHSA) Study Group; Padalino M, Sarris G, Protopapas E, Prospero C, Pizarro C, Woodford E, Tlaskal T, Berggren H, Kostolny M, Omeje I, Asfour B, Kadner A, Carrel T, Schoof PH, Nosal M, Fragata J, Kozłowski M, Maruszewski B, Vricella LA, Cameron DE, Sojak V, Hazekamp M, Salminen J, Mattila IP, Cleuziou J, Myers PO, Hraska V.
Ann Thorac Surg. 2017 Sep;104(3):899-906. Epub 2017 Jul 12.
PMID: 28709661.
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.04.026 
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ALCAPA STUDY: an ECHSA/Japanese Collaboration
Scope of the study: We queried, by using the ECHSA database and Japanese data the early outcome of patients with ALCAPA who underwent surgical repair.
Principal Investigator: Vladimiro Vida – Renjie Wu (Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, University of Padua, Italy - Department of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Shanghai Children's Medical Center, Shanghai, China)
Current Status: Accepted for Publication, Journal of Cardiac Surgery