Impaired Motor Function? Young Children with CHD in Contrast to Adolescents better than Expected in a Direct Twin Comparison

Background: Newborns and infants with congenital heart defect (CHD) often show delayed neurodevelopment. It seems obvious that the operations and treatments of the heart defect, especially on motor skills, are responsible for this delay. It is unclear how the children will develop in the future and how they would have developed without the CHD. Therefore, we compared motor function of twin siblings with and without CHD.