Table 1:

Patients' profile

	All patients (n = 48)	Patients before 2000 (n = 29)	Patients after 2001 (n = 19)	P-value	Staged repair (n = 27)	Primary complete repair (n = 21)	P-value
Male	25	15	10	0.95	14	11	0.97
Age at surgery (days)	7 (2–250)	6 (2–250)	8 (3–27)	0.57	6 (2–27)	8 (3–250)	0.29
Body weight at surgery (kg)	3.4 (1.8–4.3)	3.2 (1.8–4.3)	3.5 (2.1–4.2)	0.09	3.2 (1.8–4.2)	3.5 (2.6–4.3)	0.003
Aortic arch anatomy
Type A	8	8	0		7	1
Type B	39	20	19		19	20
Type C	1	1	0		1	0
Intracardiac anatomy
VSD	29	18	11		17	12
Complex	19	11	8	0.77	10	9	0.28
DiGeorge syndrome	10	2	8	0.003	4	6	0.24

VSD: ventricular septal defect.