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Neonatal cardiovascular diseases

Argentina

• Archivos argentinos de pediatría
  • Detection of critical congenital heart disease among newborns in Argentina through the national surveillance system of congenital heart disease (RENAC) [2022]

Australia

• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  • Congenital heart disease in Australia [2019]

• WA Health
  • Transposition of the Great Arteries
  • Pulse Oximetry Screening to Detect Critical Congenital Heart Disease
  • Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn (PPHN)
  • Cardiac: Syndromes Associated with Congenital Cardiac Defects
  • Cardiac: Managagment of Balloon Atrial Septostomy
  • Cardiac: Coarctation of the Aorta (CoA) and Interrupted Aortic Arch (IAA) – Pre-operative Management
  • Cardiac: Care Post Cardiac Catheterisation

Australia, New Zealand

• International Journal of Neonatal Screening
  • Barriers to the Implementation of Newborn Pulse Oximetry Screening: A Different Perspective [2018]

Brazil

• Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
  • Position Statement on Indications for Echocardiography in Fetal and Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease of the Adult – 2020 [2020]

• BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
  • Congenital heart disease: epidemiological profile of live births, geographical distribution and temporal trends in Brazil from 2012 to 2022 [2025]

• Preventive Medicine
  • Newborn pulse oximetry screening coverage in a nationwide complex survey sample: An assessment of a congenital heart disease early detection program at the regional level in Brazil [2024]

• Revista Paulista de Pediatria
  • Compounded medications for cardiovascular use in neonatology: an integrative review [2022]

Canada

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Pulse oximetry screening in newborns to enhance detection of critical congenital heart disease [2017]

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Association between maternal chronic conditions and congenital heart defects: a population-based cohort study [2013]

China

• Chinese Medical Journal
  • Temporal trend in mortality due to congenital heart disease in China from 2008 to 2021 [2025]
  • Impact of clinical research on public health policy of neonatal screening for congenital heart disease in China [2022]

• Frontiers in Pediatrics
  • Prevalence of Congenital Heart Disease in Chinese Children With Different Birth Weights and Its Relationship to the Neonatal Birth Weight [2022]
  • Cardiovascular Pharmacological Support Among Preterm Infants in Chinese Referral Center Neonatal Intensive Care Units [2021]

• Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Resolving Early Targets and Metabolomic Profile of Congenital Heart Disease Through Tandem Mass Spectrometry Screening in Neonates [2025]

• World Journal of Pediatrics
  • Perioperative extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in pediatric congenital heart disease: Chinese expert consensus [2023]

Czech Republic

• JAMA Network Open
  • Pregnancy Termination and Postnatal Major Congenital Heart Defect Prevalence After Introduction of Prenatal Cardiac Screening [2023]

Denmark

• Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Congenital Heart Defects and Apgar Score at Birth, a Nationwide Study [2025]

• Scientific Reports
  • Nationwide registry study of long term survival and comorbidities in total anomalous pulmonary venous connection in Denmark [2025]

• Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Prevalence of chromosomal disorders in cases with congenital heart defect: registry-based study from Denmark between 2008 and 2018 [2023]

Developing countries

• International Journal of Neonatal Screening
  • Newborn Critical Congenital Heart Disease Screening Using Pulse Oximetry: Value and Unique Challenges in Developing Regions [2020]

Europe

• EUROCAT
  • Timing of Cardiac Surgical Interventions and Postoperative Mortality in Children With Severe Congenital Heart Defects Across Europe: Data From the EUROlinkCAT Study [2023]
  • Maternal age and the prevalence of congenital heart defects in Europe, 1995-2015: A register-based study [2023]
  • Prevalence of congenital heart defects in Europe, 2008-2015: A registry-based study [2022]

• European Society for Paediatric Research
  • A recommendation for the use of electrical biosensing technology in neonatology [2025]
  • Recommendations for neonatologist performed echocardiography in Europe: Consensus Statement endorsed by European Society for Paediatric Research (ESPR) and European Society for Neonatology (ESN) [2016]

• European Society of Cardiology
  • A call to action on pregnancy-related lifestyle interventions to reduce cardiovascular risk in the offspring: a scientific statement of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology [2025]
  • Standardization in paediatric echocardiographic reporting and critical interpretation of measurements, functional parameters, and prediction scores: a clinical consensus statement of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging of the European Society of Cardiology and the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology [2024]

• European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care
  • Recommendations for hemodynamic monitoring for critically ill children-expert consensus statement issued by the cardiovascular dynamics section of the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC) [2020]

• European Standards of Care for Newborn Health
  • Management of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn infant (PPHN)

• Pediatric Research
  • Tissue Doppler velocity imaging and event timings in neonates: a guide to image acquisition, measurement, interpretation, and reference values [2018]
  • The role of Neonatologist Performed Echocardiography in the assessment and management of neonatal shock [2018]
  • Introduction to neonatologist-performed echocardiography [2018]
  • Education, training, and accreditation of Neonatologist Performed Echocardiography in Europe-framework for practice [2018]
  • Deformation imaging and rotational mechanics in neonates: a guide to image acquisition, measurement, interpretation, and reference values [2018]
  • Application of Neonatologist Performed Echocardiography in the Assessment and Management of Neonatal Heart Failure unrelated to Congenital Heart Disease [2018]

Germany

• International Journal of Neonatal Screening
  • Pulse Oximetry Screening in Germany—Historical Aspects and Future Perspectives [2018]

High-income countries

• Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in the Interstage Period After Norwood and Related Stage I Palliations in Infants With Single Ventricle: A Systematic Review of Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes [2026]

Ibero-America

• International Journal of Neonatal Screening
  • Early Detection with Pulse Oximetry of Hypoxemic Neonatal Conditions. Development of the IX Clinical Consensus Statement of the Ibero-American Society of Neonatology (SIBEN) [2018]

India

• Annals of Pediatric Cardiology
  • Indian guidelines for indications and timing of intervention for common congenital heart diseases: Revised and updated consensus statement of the Working group on management of congenital heart diseases [2019]

• BMC Pediatrics
  • Management of neonatal pulmonary hypertension-a survey of neonatal intensive care units in India [2023]

• Indian Academy of Pediatrics
  • Indications and Timing of Surgeries in Congenital Heart Diseases [2022]

• Indian Heart Journal
  • Guidelines for the management of common congenital heart diseases in India: A consensus statement on indications and timing of intervention [2019]

• National Neonatology Forum
  • Active versus restrictive approach to isolated hypotension in preterm neonates: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis and GRADE based Clinical Practice Guideline [2025]
  • Diagnosis and Management of Shock in Neonates [2023]

Indonesia

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Geographical inequalities and temporal trends in pediatric cardiovascular diseases in Indonesia: a 34-year global burden of disease analysis [2025]

International

• Annals of Thoracic Surgery
  • Expert Consensus Statement: Anatomy, Imaging, and Nomenclature of Congenital Aortic Root Malformations [2023]

• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Birthweight and isolated congenital heart defects - A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

• BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
  • Using artificial intelligence to predict post-operative outcomes in congenital heart surgeries: a systematic review [2025]

• BMC Pediatrics
  • Newborn pulse oximetry screening for critical congenital heart defects [2021]
  • Congenital heart disease diagnosed with echocardiogram in newborns with asymptomatic cardiac murmurs: a systematic review [2020]

• BMJ Open
  • Maternal modifiable factors and risk of congenital heart defects: systematic review and causality assessment [2024]
  • Prenatal diagnosis and prevalence of critical congenital heart defects: an international retrospective cohort study [2019]

• Canadian Journal of Cardiology
  • Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Prenatal Risk Factors for Congenital Heart Disease: Part 1, Maternal Chronic Diseases and Parental Exposures [2024]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Time trends in mortality of congenital heart disease in children aged 0-14 years: a global, regional, and national cohort analysis from 1990 to 2021 using the global burden of disease study [2025]

• International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation
  • Fast and accurate newborn heart rate monitoring at birth: A systematic review [2024]

• International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • ISUOG consensus statement on current understanding of the association of neurodevelopmental delay and congenital heart disease: impact on prenatal counseling [2017]

• Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
  • International treatment outcomes of neonates on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) with persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN): a systematic review [2024]

• Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Neonatal Outcomes in Very Preterm Infants With Severe Congenital Heart Defects: An International Cohort Study [2020]

• Maternal and Child Health Journal
  • Association Between Maternal Factors and Risk of Congenital Heart Disease in Offspring: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2023]

• Pediatric and Congenital Interventional Cardiovascular Society
  • PICS/AEPC/APPCS/CSANZ/SCAI/SOLACI: Expert Consensus Statement on Cardiac Catheterization for Pediatric Patients and Adults With Congenital Heart Disease [2024]

• PLoS ONE
  • Sex differences in global burden of Congenital Heart Anomalies in children under five from 1990 to 2021 [2026]

• Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
  • Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance/European Society of Cardiovascular Imaging/American Society of Echocardiography/Society for Pediatric Radiology/North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging Guidelines for the use of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in pediatric congenital and acquired heart disease : Endorsed by The American Heart Association [2022]

Iran

• International Journal of Health Policy and Management
  • Spatial Distribution and Birth Prevalence of Congenital Heart Disease in Iran: A Systematic Review and Hierarchical Bayesian Meta-analysis [2024]

Ireland, United Kingdom

• Heart
  • Trends in surgical and catheter interventions for isolated congenital shunt lesions in the UK and Ireland [2019]

Israel

• Israel Medical Association Journal
  • The Saga of Pulse Oximetry Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease in Israel: A Historical Perspective [2021]

Italy

• Antibiotics
  • Peri-Operative Prophylaxis in Patients of Neonatal and Pediatric Age Subjected to Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery: A RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method Consensus Study [2022]

• International Angiology
  • Guidelines for Vascular Anomalies by the Italian Society for the study of Vascular Anomalies (SISAV) [2022]

Japan

• Circulation Journal
  • JCS 2022 Guideline on Management and Re-Interventional Therapy in Patients With Congenital Heart Disease Long-Term After Initial Repair [2022]

Latin America

• International Journal of Neonatal Screening
  • CCHD Screening Implementation Efforts in Latin American Countries by the Ibero American Society of Neonatology (SIBEN) [2020]

Low and middle income countries

• BMJ Global Health
  • Recommendations for developing effective and safe paediatric and congenital heart disease services in low-income and middle-income countries: a public health framework [2023]

• International Journal of Neonatal Screening
  • Considerations for Newborn Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease in Low- and Middle-Income Countries [2020]

Malta

• Cardiology in the Young
  • The epidemiology of CHD in Malta [2024]

Mexico

• Gaceta Médica de México
  • Neonatal cardiac screening in Mexico, a tool for critical heart disease early diagnosis [2022]

• PLoS ONE
  • Mortality from Congenital Heart Disease in Mexico: A Problem on the Rise [2016]

Middle East, North Africa

• Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Burden of Congenital Heart Anomalies in North Africa and the Middle East, 1990 to 2021: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 [2025]

Netherlands

• International Journal of Neonatal Screening
  • Pulse Oximetry Screening Adapted to a System with Home Births: The Dutch Experience [2018]

New Zealand

• BMJ Open
  • Factors influencing the choice-of-care pathway and survival in the fetus with hypoplastic left heart syndrome in New Zealand: a population-based cohort study [2023]

• Health New Zealand
  • Pulse oximetry screening guidelines for newborn babies [2024]

• Starship
  • Pulse oximetry screening in the newborn
  • Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn
  • Cardiac - pre-operative cardiac care in NICU
  • Cardiac - management of balloon atrial septostomy for congenital heart defects in NICU
  • Cardiac - management of antenatally diagnosed major congenital heart disease at delivery and in NICU
  • Blood pressure - hypotension in neonates
  • Blood pressure - hypertension in neonates

Nordic countries

• Acta Paediatrica
  • Nordic pulse oximetry screening – implementation status and proposal for uniform guidelines [2014]

Norway

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Down syndrome and associated atrioventricular septal defects in a nationwide Norwegian cohort: Prevalence, time trends, and outcomes [2024]

• American Heart Journal
  • Birth prevalence of congenital heart defects in Norway 1994-2009—A nationwide study [2014]

Saudi Arabia

• International Journal of Neonatal Screening
  • Universal Screening for CCHD in Saudi Arabia: The Road to a ‘State of the Art’ Program [2020]

Sweden

• Pediatric Cardiology
  • Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum, a National Comparison Between Interventional and Surgical Approach, in Combination with a Systemic Literature Review [2025]

Switzerland

• Swiss Medical Weekly
  • ORCHID (Outcome Registry for CHIldren with severe congenital heart Disease) a Swiss, nationwide, prospective, population-based, neurodevelopmental paediatric patient registry: framework, regulations and implementation [2022]

Taiwan

• PLoS ONE
  • Development of a Newborn Screening Program for Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) in Taipei [2016]

United Arab Emirates

• BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
  • Impact of an electronic medical record-based automated screening program for critical congenital heart disease: Emirates Health Services, United Arab Emirates [2022]

United Kingdom

• Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition
  • Ethnic and socioeconomic variation in incidence of congenital heart defects [2017]

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Maternal sociodemographic characteristics, early pregnancy behaviours, and livebirth outcomes as congenital heart defects risk factors - Northern Ireland 2010-2014 [2021]

• British Association of Perinatal Medicine
  • Routine Pulse Oximetry Testing for Newborn Babies [2024]

• Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Evaluating Long-Term Outcomes of Children Undergoing Surgical Treatment for Congenital Heart Disease for National Audit in England and Wales [2024]

• Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  • A cohort evaluation of surgical pathways reported to a national audit of children undergoing treatment for congenital heart disease in England and Wales [2025]

• National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research
  • National Congenital Heart Disease Audit

• Right Decisions
  • Postnatal management of fetal arrhythmias
  • Postnatal management of a right or double aortic arch
  • Management of neonatal arterial occlusion and thrombosis
  • Heart murmurs in the neonate: an approach to the neonate with a heart murmur

• UK National Screening Committee
  • Congenital heart disease

United States

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Newborn Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease: A New Algorithm and Other Updated Recommendations: Clinical Report [2024]
  • Recognition and Management of Cardiovascular Insufficiency in the Very Low Birth Weight Newborn [2022]
  • The Care of Children With Congenital Heart Disease in Their Primary Medical Home [2017]
  • Endorsement of Health and Human Services Recommendation for Pulse Oximetry Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease [2012]

• American Association for Thoracic Surgery
  • The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) 2022 Expert Consensus Document: Management of infants and neonates with tetralogy of Fallot [2023]

• American Heart Association
  • Perioperative Considerations for Pediatric Patients With Congenital Heart Disease Presenting for Noncardiac Procedures: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association [2023]
  • Developmental Care for Hospitalized Infants With Complex Congenital Heart Disease: A Science Advisory From the American Heart Association [2023]
  • Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Mitigating Health Disparities Across the Lifespan in Congenital Heart Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association [2022]
  • Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Children With Congenital Heart Disease: Evaluation and Management [2012]
  • Genetic Basis for Congenital Heart Defects: Current Knowledge: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association Congenital Cardiac Defects Committee, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young: Endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics [2007]

• American Journal of Perinatology
  • Current Postlaunch Implementation of State Mandates of Newborn Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease by Pulse Oximetry in U.S. States and Hospitals [2024]

• American Society of Echocardiography
  • Guidelines for Performing a Comprehensive Pediatric Transthoracic Echocardiogram: Recommendations From the American Society of Echocardiography [2024]
  • Guidelines and Recommendations for Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography and Cardiac Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography [2024]
  • Recommendations for the Adult Cardiac Sonographer Performing Echocardiography to Screen for Critical Congenital Heart Disease in the Newborn: From the American Society of Echocardiography [2021]
  • Recommendations for Multimodality Assessment of Congenital Coronary Anomalies: A Guide from the American Society of Echocardiography: Developed in Collaboration with the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Japanese Society of Echocardiography, and Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance [2020]

• American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
  • Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn [2024]
  • Arrhythmias [2024]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Survival of Children With Critical Congenital Heart Defects in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study [2024]
  • Actions in Support of Newborn Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease — United States, 2011–2018 [2019]
  • Congenital Heart Defects

• Critical Care Explorations
  • National Experience With Tracheostomy in Neonates Undergoing Congenital Heart Surgery: A Multicenter Analysis [2025]

• International Journal of Neonatal Screening
  • Critical Congenital Heart Disease Screening Using Pulse Oximetry: Achieving a National Approach to Screening, Education and Implementation in the United States [2017]

• JAMA
  • Association of US State Implementation of Newborn Screening Policies for Critical Congenital Heart Disease With Early Infant Cardiac Deaths [2017]

• Journal of Perinatology
  • The Use of Supplemental Hydrocortisone in the Management of Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn [2021]

• Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Comparative Costs of Management Strategies for Neonates With Symptomatic Tetralogy of Fallot [2022]

• Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Framework for Kidney Health Follow-Up Among Neonates With Critical Cardiac Disease: A Report From the Neonatal Kidney Health Consensus Workshop [2025]

• Maternal and Child Health Journal
  • Critical Congenital Heart Disease Newborn Screening Implementation: Lessons Learned [2017]

• National Birth Defects Prevention Network
  • Prevalence of critical congenital heart defects and selected co-occurring congenital anomalies, 2014-2018: A U.S. population-based study [2022]

• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Definitions of cardiovascular insufficiency and relation to outcomes in critically ill newborn infants [2015]

• Pediatric Research
  • Hemodynamic assessment by neonatologist using echocardiography: Primary provider versus consultation model [2024]

• Pediatrics
  • Lesion-Specific Congenital Heart Disease Mortality Trends in Children: 1999 to 2017 [2022]
  • Updated Strategies for Pulse Oximetry Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease [2020]
  • Lessons Learned From Newborn Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Defects [2016]

• Society of Thoracic Surgeons
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Management of Neonates and Infants With Coarctation [2024]

West Africa

• BMJ Global Health
  • Added value of routine pulse oximetry use within Integrated Management of Childhood Illness guidelines in primary care in West Africa: insight from AIRE [2026]

Western countries

• Newborn Brain Society
  • Neuromonitoring practices for neonates with congenital heart disease: a scoping review [2025]

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