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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 5.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Cardiol. 2012 Mar 27;33(7):1138–1146. doi: 10.1007/s00246-012-0269-9

Table 3.

Brain Metrics in CHD Compared to Control

Brain Metric
Mean
(SD)		 Term MRI (pre-operative) Three-month MRI (late post-operative)
Control CHD P
value		 Adjusted
P valuea 		Control CHD P
value		 Adjusted
P Valueb
RFH (cm) 4.98 (0.63) 3.96 (0.59) <0.001 <0.001 5.51 (0.67) 4.65 (0.54) <0.001 <0.001
LFH (cm) 4.93 (0.60) 3.92 (0.59) <0.001 <0.001 5.55 (0.64) 4.61 (0.52) <0.001 <0.001
BIFD (cm) 7.25 (0.45) 6.25 (0.55) <0.001 <0.001 8.11 (0.39) 7.30 (0.61) <0.001 <0.001
BoBPD (cm) 8.93 (0.43) 8.52 (0.46) <.001 <0.001 10.22 (0.52) 9.80 (0.58) <0.001 <0.01
BrBPD (cm) 8.53 (0.46) 8.04 (0.48) <0.001 <0.001 9.78 (0.46) 9.29 (0.64) <0.001 <0.01
TCD (cm) 5.56 (0.26) 5.25 (0.29) <0.001 <0.001 6.89 (0.38) 6.79 (0.40) 0.74 0.95
BA (cm2) 2.73 (0.24) 2.28 (0.36) <0.001 <0.001 2.97 (0.46) 2.55 (0.35) <0.001 <0.001
a

Controlling for gender, postmenstrual age at MRI, birth weight

b

Controlling for gender and weight at MRI