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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

Claudia Herbst^1,*, Haibo Zhang², Renjie Hu², Jürgen Hörer³, Masamichi Ono³, Vladimiro Vida⁴, Tjark Ebels^5,6, Andrzej Kansy⁷, Jeffrey P. Jacobs⁸, Zdzislaw Tobota⁷, Bohdan Maruszewski⁷

1 Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery and Pediatric Heart Center, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2 Department of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
3 Department for Congenital and Pediatric Heart Surgery, German Heart Center Munich, Technische Universität München, Division for Congenital and Pediatric Heart Surgery, University Hospital of Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
4 Pediatric and Cardiac Surgery Unit, Department of Cardio Thoracic Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
5 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
6 Cardiothoracic Surgery, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
7 Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland
8 St. Petersburg, FL, USA

* Corresponding Author: Claudia Herbst. Email: