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Utilization of inhaled nitric oxide after surgical repair of truncus arteriosus: A multicenter analysis

Christine M. Riley¹, Christopher W. Mastropietro², Peter Sassalos³, Jason R. Buckley⁴, John M. Costello⁴, Ilias Iliopoulos⁵, Aimee Jennings⁶, Katherine Cashen⁷, Sukumar Suguna Narasimhulu⁸, Keshava M. N. Gowda⁹, Arthur J. Smerling¹⁰, Michael Wilhelm¹¹, Aditya Badheka¹², Adnan Bakar^13,14, Elizabeth A. S. Moser¹⁵, Venu Amula¹⁶

1 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiac Critical Care, Children’s National Health System, Washington, District of Columbia
2 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care, Indiana University School of Medicine, Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, Indiana
3 Department of Cardiac Surgery, Section of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Michigan, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan
4 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Medical University of South Carolina Children’s Hospital, Charleston, South Carolina
5 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiac Critical Care, The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
6 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, Washington
7 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan
8 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiac Intensive Care, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, The Heart Center at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Orlando, Florida
9 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
10 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York, New York, New York
11 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiac Intensive Care, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
12 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa
13 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiac Critical Care, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, New York
14 Cohen Children’s Medical Center, New Hyde Park, New York
15 Department of Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Medicine & Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indianapolis, Indiana
16 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Primary Children’s Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah

* Corresponding Author: Christine M. Riley, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiac Critical Care, Children’s National Health System, 111 Michigan Ave, Washington, DC 20010. Email: