title: Assessment of Growth 6 Years after the Norwood Procedure.
abstract: At 6 years of age, patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome had mean age-adjusted z-scores for weight and height below the normative population, and body mass index was similar to the normative population. Males had the greatest increase in z-scores for body mass index.
  
  
  
  ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00115934.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Surgery, Primary Children's Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. Electronic address: Phillip.Burch@hsc.utah.edu.
authors.forename: Phillip T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Burch
authors.affiliation: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: Chitra
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ravishankar
authors.affiliation: Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
authors.forename: Jane W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Newburger
authors.affiliation: Departments of Surgery, Primary Children's Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
authors.forename: Linda M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Lambert
authors.affiliation: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
authors.forename: Victoria L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Pemberton
authors.affiliation: New England Research Institutes, Watertown, MA.
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Granger
authors.affiliation: The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Alejandro A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Floh
authors.affiliation: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
authors.forename: Jeffrey B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.affiliation: The Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
authors.forename: Garick D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.affiliation: Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
authors.forename: Kevin D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.affiliation: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
authors.forename: Matthew E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Oster
authors.affiliation: Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
authors.forename: Alan B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI.
authors.forename: Kurt R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Schumacher
authors.affiliation: Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
authors.forename: Sinai C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Zyblewski
authors.affiliation: Nemours/A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE.
authors.forename: Ryan R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Davies
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins All Children's Heart Institute, Orlando, FL.
authors.forename: Jeffrey P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Jacobs
authors.affiliation: Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Wyman W
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.affiliation: Departments of Pediatrics, Primary Children's Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
authors.forename: L LuAnn
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Minich
mesh_terms: D001827:Body Height; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006128:Growth; D006801:Humans; D018636:Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome / Q000601:surgery*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D058327:Norwood Procedures; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: growth; hypoplastic left heart syndrome; pediatrics; risk factors