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. 2025 Aug 26;25:425. doi: 10.1186/s12871-025-03285-7

Table 2.

Perioperative complications and outcome

Group Total study population
(n = 67)
CPB
(n = 18)
mini-CPB
(n = 15)
VV-ECMO
(n = 28)
VA-ECMO
(n = 6)
P value
Survival to discharge, n (%) 61(91.0%) 17(94.4) 14(93.3) 26(92.9) 4(66.6) 0.57
OR extubation, n (%) 43(64.2%) 10(55.6) 10(66.6) 20(71.4) 3(50.0) 0.04
Postoperative morbidity, n (%) 18(26.9%)
Anastomotic complications 11(16.1%) 5(27.8) 3(20.0) 2(7.1) 1(16.7) 0.04
 Atelectasis 8(11.9) 2(11.1) 2(13.3) 4(14.3) 0(0.0) 0.47
 Respiratory infection 7(10.4) 1(5.6) 2(13.3) 3(10.7) 1(16.7) 0.58
 Chylothorax 3(4.5) 2(11.1) 0(0.0) 2(7.1) 0 0.72
 Bronchopleural fistula 6(9.0) 3(16.7) 1(6.7) 1(3.6) 1(16.7) 0.63
 Respiratory failure 4(6.0) 2(11.1) 0(0.0) 1(3.6) 1(16.7) 0.65
Operation time (min) 119 ± 38 142 ± 59 146 ± 63 133 ± 43 138 ± 28 0.61
Surgical bleeding (ml) 290 ± 126 460 ± 73 220 ± 78 210 ± 55 330 ± 47 0.03
Blood transfusion n (%) 16(23.9) 9(50.0) 4(26.7) 3(10.8) 2(33.3)  < 0.01
pRBC Transfusion (ml) 180 ± 34 280 ± 57 170 ± 43 140 ± 38 110 ± 45 0.43
Pleural drainage (ml) 193 ± 88 276 ± 116 172 ± 51 164 ± 49 130 ± 42 0.02
Ventilation time (hour), median [IQR] 24[1–233] 32[3–233] 17[11–46] 14[1–121] 66 [2–178]  < 0.01
ICU length of stay (hour), median [IQR] 51[0–427] 56[18–320] 27[17–59] 51[0–427] 100[12–258] 0.14
Hospital length of stay (days), median [IQR] 8.5 [4-40] 7.9 [5–26] 6.8 [4–12] 11 [5–22] 9.1 [4–40] 0.74

CPB cardiopulmonary bypass, m-CPB modified cardiopulmonary bypass, VV-ECMO veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, VA-ECMO veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, OR operating room, pRBC packed red blood cell, ICU intensive care unit