Table 2.
The diagnosis of the included 180 patients and their vomiting frequency pre- and postoperatively at study endpoint at 6 months. The children had comorbidity in the form of epilepsy in 27 (17%), ventricular-peritoneal shunt in 9 patients (5%), and mitochondrial disease in 6 patients (4%).
| Diagnosis | N (%) | Vomiting preoperatively N (%) |
Vomiting postoperatively N (%) |
P value∗ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cerebral pares | 61 (34) | 12 (24) | 14 (35) | 0,8254 |
| Cardiac malformation | 30 (17) | 11 (22) | 7 (18) | 0,3985 |
| Metabolic disease | 37 (21) | 10 (20) | 5 (13) | 0,2470 |
| GI malformations | 7 (4) | 2 (4) | 1 (3) | 1 |
| Malignancy | 11 (6) | 2 (4) | 2 (5) | 1 |
| Respiratory insufficiency | 15 (8) | 7 (14) | 6 (15) | 1 |
| Syndrome | 19 (10) | 7 (14) | 5 (13) | 0,7290 |
| Sum | 180 (100) | 51 (100) | 40 (100) | 0,2253 |
| P value∗∗ | P = 0,0152 | P = 0,0049 |
Statistical methods:
∗Fisher's exact probability test, two tailed,
∗∗Mann-Whitney U test.