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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2013 Apr 9;147(1):10.1016/j.jtcvs.2013.03.023. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2013.03.023

Table 2. Preoperative and postoperative outcomes.

Outcome UCSF
(N=41)		 UNICAR
(N=30)		 p-value
30-day mortality* – n (%) 0 5 (17) 0.007
# ventilator hours - median (IQR) 19 (11, 40) 27 (4, 96) 0.5
ICU LOS (days) - median (IQR) 5 (3, 8) 2 (1, 10) 0.024
Continuous inotropes
 Any (hours)-median (IQR) 66 (27, 99) 0 (0, 48) 0.003
 Dopamine (hours)-median (IQR) 1 (0, 18) 0 (0, 27) 0.7
 Milrinone (hours)-median (IQR) 66 (25, 99) 0 <0.001
BNP (pg/mL) - median (IQR) 30 (14, 89) 40 (8, 290) 0.8
*

Deaths were excluded from analyses of all clinical outcomes except 30-day mortality.

BNP, B-type Natriuretic Peptide; IQR, Interquartile range; UCSF, University of California San Francisco; UNICAR, La Unidad de Cirugia Cardiovascular de Guatemala.