. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 21.

Published in final edited form as: Cardiol Young. 2015 Dec 30;26(7):1303–1309. doi: 10.1017/S1047951115002498

Table 1.

Study population characteristics.

	Total (n = 314)
Preoperative
Prenatal diagnosis	245 (78%)
Male gender	194 (62%)
Median gestational age at birth [IQR]	38 [37–39]
Median birth weight in grams [IQR]	3100 [2731–3410]
Anatomical diagnosis of HLHS (versus other single RV anomaly)	298 (95%)
Aortic atresia	205 (65%)
Obstructed pulmonary venous return	11 (4%)
Payor group
Government	127 (40%)
Private	128 (41%)
Other	59(19%)
Preoperative intubation	138 (44%)
Operative
Randomised RV–PA shunt	161 (51%)
Regional cerebral perfusion	125 (40%)
Open sternum	208 (67%)
Total cardiopulmonary bypass time in minutes [IQR]	133 [91–163]
Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest time in minutes [IQR]	36 [8–50]

HLHS = hypoplastic left heart syndrome; IQR = interquartile range; PA = pulmonary artery; RV = right ventricle