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Enrolled infants were stratified as having hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) and all other forms of congenital heart disease (non-HLHS). Drug was administered before, during, and after surgery. Adverse events and the clinical efficacy endpoints death, seizures, coma, and cardiac events were monitored until infants were discharged from the intensive care unit or 6 weeks, whichever came first.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results.<\/jats:title><jats:p>Between July 1992 and September 1997, 350 infants were enrolled and 348 subsequently randomized. A total of 318 infants (131 HLHS and 187 non-HLHS) underwent heart surgery using DHCA. There was a nonsignificant treatment effect for the primary efficacy endpoint analysis (death, seizures, and coma), which was consistent over the 2 strata. The addition of cardiac events to the primary endpoint resulted in a lack of consistency of treatment effect over strata, with the allopurinol treatment group experiencing fewer events (38% vs 60%) in the entire HLHS stratum, compared with the non-HLHS stratum (30% vs 27%). In HLHS surgical survivors, 40 of 47 (85%) allopurinol-treated infants did not experience any endpoint event, compared with 27 of 49 (55%) controls. There were fewer seizures-only and cardiac-only events in the allopurinol versus placebo groups. Allopurinol did not reduce efficacy endpoint events in non-HLHS infants. Treated and control infants did not differ in adverse events.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions.<\/jats:title><jats:p>Allopurinol provided significant neurocardiac protection in higher-risk HLHS infants who underwent cardiac surgery using DHCA. 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