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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2018 Dec;67(6):701–705. doi: 10.1097/MPG.0000000000002106

Table 1:

Patient Demographics and Frequency of Adverse Events by Procedural Characteristics

DILATION APPROACH ENDOSCOPY STRICTURE NUMBER
ANTEROGRADE RETROGRADE P value YES NO P value SINGLE MULTIPLE P value
TOTAL DILATIONS 209 22 190 41 169 62
Mean Age (years) 9.3 10.8 0.182 9.8 8.0 0.033 8.3 12.7 <0.001
Female (%) 66% 50% 0.353 63% 73% 0.201 65% 65% 0.998
Interval (days) 224 245 0.677 168 142 0.005 192 330 <0.001
ADVERSE EVENTS 1
Grade 1 3 0 2 1 2 1
Grade 2 3 1 4 0 2 2
Grade 3 14 2 15 1 12 4
Grade 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
Grade 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
AE- ALL GRADES 20 3 21 2 16 7
AEs GRADES ≥2 17 3 0.417 19 1 0.215 14 6 0.793
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Subjects could have >1 type of AE at the same time. Among the 23 dilations associated with ≥1 AE, there were a total of 29 different types of AEs.