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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 18.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2009 Sep 28;120(15):1482–1490. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.848994

Table 2.

Anatomic Dimensions on Preintervention/Midgestation Echocardiogram and at Late-Gestation Follow-Up Among Patients and Comparison Fetuses

Variable Technically Successful Intervention
(n=45)*
Comparison Fetuses
(n=21)
P
Pre-intervention Follow-Up P Mid-gestation Follow-Up P
Gestational age, wk 23.9±2.1 34.0±2.7 23.2±3.6 32.7±3.1 0.31,* 0.11
Aortic annulus diameter Zscore −2.5±0.9 −2.9±1.0 0.008 −2.3±1.2 −4.3±0.9 <0.001 0.55, <0.001
Ascending aorta Zscore diameter −0.4±2.0 −0.6±1.5 0.83 −0.8±1.9 −2.2±2.1 <0.001 0.44, 0.001
LV long-axis dimension Zscore 0.9±1.8 −1.4±1.5 <0.001 0.0±1.3 −2.7±1.2 <0.001 0.03, 0.002
LV short-axis dimension Zscore 3.0±2.7 −0.3±2.2 <0.001 2.4±2.2 −1.7±1.8 <0.001 0.3, 0.02
MV annulus diameter Zscore −1.2±1.2 −2.2±1.3 <0.001 −1.3±1.3 −4.3±1.3 <0.001 0.82,<0.001
RV long-axis dimension Zscore 1.5±1.4 0.5±1.4 0.001 1.2±1.2 0.2±0.9 0.16 0.30,0.46

Follow-up duration was 71.1±23.2 days in fetuses that underwent technically successful intervention and 68.2±24.9 days in comparison group fetuses (P=0.58). Data are presented as mean±SD.

*

Fetal deaths and fetuses still in utero excluded.

Preintervention/midgestation technically successful intervention versus comparison fetuses.

Follow-up technically successful intervention versus comparison fetuses.