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Association of Shunt Type and Cumulative In-Hospital Costs After Norwood Procedure

(A) Norwood procedure with right ventricle to pulmonary artery shunt (Top) and modified Blalock-Taussig-Thomas shunt (Bottom). Image from Menon et al.⁴(B) Total costs and cost-per-day alive. Box-and-whiskers plot depicting the accumulation of total cumulative costs (Top) and cost-per-day-alive (Bottom) for Blalock-Taussig-Thomas Shunt (MBTTS) (blue) and right ventricle to pulmonary artery shunt (RVPAS) (red). The solid line in the box depicts the median cost, the open circle depicts the mean cost, the box depicts the range between the 25th and 75th percentiles, and the whiskers depict 1.5 times the interquartile range. SVR = single ventricle reconstruction.