Pre-Treatment with Dexamethasone Provides Anti-Inflammatory and Myocardial Protection in Neonatal Arterial Switch Operation: A Prospective Randomized Double-Blind Controlled Study

infants with congenital cardiac defects depending on hypoxemia Ruth Heying1,3, Ma Qing1, Michael Woltje2, Kathrin Schumacher1,5, Magdalena Sokalska1, Jaime F Vazquez-Jimenez4, Marie-Christine Seghaye1,5 1 Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Aachen University, Germany; 2 Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research BIOMAT, Aachen University, Germany; 3 Department of Pediatric Cardiology, UZ Leuven, Belgium; 4 Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Aachen University, Germany; 5 Department of Pediatrics, University of Liege, Belgium