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  • Cardiology
  • Pediatric Cardiology
  • Interventional Cardiology

Background:

  • Early postoperative catheterizations (EPOCs) are performed within 6 weeks of congenital heart surgery to manage residual lesions and gather clinical data.
  • EPOCs are often perceived as carrying additional risks for vulnerable pediatric patients.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe the characteristics of the EPOC population.
  • To evaluate the safety of EPOC procedures.
  • To compare outcomes of EPOC patients with matched non-EPOC patients and identify risk factors for adverse events.

Main Methods:

  • A retrospective cohort study analyzed data from 13 institutions between January 2014 and December 2017.
  • Included diagnostic and interventional catheterizations, excluding post-heart transplant cases.
  • The primary outcome was a high-severity adverse event (AE); analyses compared EPOC patients with controls and evaluated risk factors.

Main Results:

  • The study included 17,776 catheterizations, with 1,399 EPOCs.
  • The high-severity AE rate was 8.9% in the EPOC cohort versus 8.4% in matched controls (P = .74), with no significant association between EPOC status and AEs in multivariable analysis (P = .17).
  • EPOCs with AEs had longer procedure durations and a longer time from surgery to catheterization.

Conclusions:

  • EPOCs are not associated with increased risk of high-severity adverse events.
  • Individual patient factors, such as size and hemodynamic status, are important predictors of outcomes.
  • Optimizing procedure timing and duration may improve outcomes and prevent clinical deterioration.