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Table 1 Preoperative patients' characteristics

From: Factors affecting the outcomes after bidirectional Glenn shunt: two decades of experience from a tertiary referral center

Preoperative data

Age (months)

9 (5.7–15)

Weight (kg) (n = 258)

6.85 (5.6–8.45)

Height (cm) (n = 255)

67 (62–75)

Diagnosis (n = 258)

 Tricuspid atresia

49 (18.99%)

 Hypoplastic left heart syndrome

46 (17.83%)

 Common atrioventricular canal

39 (15.12%)

 Other

36 (13.95%)

 Transposition of great arteries

27 (10.47%)

 Double outlet right ventricle

20 (7.75%)

 Double inlet left ventricle

14 (5.43%)

 Pulmonary atresia, Intact interventricular septum

14 (5.43%)

 Mitral atresia

8 (3.10%)

 Shon's complex

5 (1.94%)

Dominant ventricle

 Indeterminate

76 (29.34%)

 Left ventricle

94 (36.29%)

 Right ventricle

89 (34.36%)

Pre Glenn-intervention (n = 257)

 No intervention

102 (39.69%)

 Norwood

69 (26.85%)

 Patent ductus arteriosus stent

36 (14.01%)

 Modified Blalock Taussig shunt

30 (11.67%)

 Pulmonary artery banding

12 (4.67%)

 Other

4 (1.56%)

 Balloon atrial septostomy

3 (1.17%)

 Right ventricular outflow tract stent

1 (0.39%)

Preoperative echo systemic ventricle function (n = 248)

 Normal

237 (95.56%)

 Fair

5 (2.02%)

 Depressed

6 (2.42%)

Atrioventricular valve regurgitation (n = 235)

 Normal

102 (43.40%)

 Trace

17 (7.23%)

 Mild

75 (31.91%)

 Moderate

35 (14.89%)

 Severe

6 (2.55%)

Preoperative saturation (%) (n-243)

86 (80–91)

Preoperative cardiac catheterization (n = 257)

203 (78.99%)

Mean pulmonary artery pressure (mmHg) (n = 148)

14 (11–18)

Systemic ventricle end-diastolic pressure (mmHg) (n = 155)

10 (7–13)

Qp/Qs room air (n = 160)

1 (0.68–1.58)

Indexed pulmonary vascular resistance room air (Woods unit) (n = 144)

1.49 (1–2.3)

  1. Continuous data were presented as median and (25th–75th percentiles) and categorical data as numbers and percentages