TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 11. Neurodevelopment in Children with Complex Congenital Heart Disease A1 - Glanzman, Marianne A1 - Licht, Daniel A1 - Wernovsky, Gil A2 - Gleason, Marie Murphy A2 - Rychik, Jack A2 - Shaddy, Robert PY - 2012 T2 - Pediatric Practice: Cardiology AB - Approximately 40,000 children are born in North America each year with congenital heart disease (CHD). Approximately half of these children require no therapy, because the defect is relatively minor (eg, a bicuspid aortic valve) or spontaneously heals (eg, a small ventricular septal defect). However, in the other half of these children, surgical or catheter intervention is necessary. For some of the children in this group, the CHD does not cause hypoxemia, circulatory insufficiency, or symptoms; these children typically undergo repair on an elective basis in childhood (eg, atrial septal defects or progressive valvar disease). In this group of school-age children, it has been shown that there is little to no impact on the central nervous system from either the unrepaired defect or from the effects of anesthesia, surgery, or postoperative care following the repair.1 SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/07 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56747253 ER -