February 2020

Possible impairment of surgical decision making and confounded outcome in Fontan surgery by Nakata Index

Since cardiac structuring dimensions inform surgical decisions making, Z-score systematic error impairs surgical decision making and confounds outcome measurement, hence a similar error may affect the Nakata index. In this study, PubMed was searched using the terms: “pulmonary,” “artery,” “size,” “Nakata,” “Fontan,” and “outcome”. Studies that did...

Author(s): Mark N. Awori, Nikita P. Mehta, Naomi Kebba, and Joseph M. Mutie