Table 1.
Patient Characteristics by Cardiac Illness Category
| Illness Category |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Overall (N = 113) |
Surgical cardiac (N = 88) |
Medical cardiac (N = 25) |
P-value |
| Age Category | <.0012 | |||
| < 1 month | 38 (33.6%) | 37 (42.0%) | 1 (4.0%) | |
| 1 month - < 1 year | 39 (34.5%) | 32 (36.4%) | 7 (28.0%) | |
| 1 year - < 8 years | 23 (20.4%) | 13 (14.8%) | 10 (40.0%) | |
| 8 years - < 19 years | 13 (11.5%) | 6 (6.8%) | 7 (28.0%) | |
| Sex | 0.0632 | |||
| Male | 69 (61.1%) | 58 (65.9%) | 11 (44.0%) | |
| Female | 44 (38.9%) | 30 (34.1%) | 14 (56.0%) | |
| Race | 0.1392 | |||
| White | 58 (51.3%) | 47 (53.4%) | 11 (44.0%) | |
| Black or African American | 22 (19.5%) | 13 (14.8%) | 9 (36.0%) | |
| Other | 4 (3.5%) | 3 (3.4%) | 1 (4.0%) | |
| Unknown or Not Reported | 29 (25.7%) | 25 (28.4%) | 4 (16.0%) | |
| Pre-existing Conditions | ||||
| Respiratory insufficiency | 86 (76.1%) | 66 (75.0%) | 20 (80.0%) | 0.7922 |
| Hypotension | 88 (77.9%) | 70 (79.5%) | 18 (72.0%) | 0.4242 |
| Congestive heart failure | 18 (15.9%) | 11 (12.5%) | 7 (28.0%) | 0.1172 |
| Pneumonia | 4 (3.5%) | 3 (3.4%) | 1 (4.0%) | 1.0002 |
| Sepsis | 19 (16.8%) | 16 (18.2%) | 3 (12.0%) | 0.5592 |
| Renal insufficiency | 12 (10.6%) | 5 (5.7%) | 7 (28.0%) | 0.0042 |
| Malignancy | 2 (1.8%) | 1 (1.1%) | 1 (4.0%) | 0.3952 |
| Congenital heart disease | 89 (78.8%) | 77 (87.5%) | 12 (48.0%) | <.0012 |
| HLHS3 | 31 (27.4%) | 27 (30.7%) | 4 (16.0%) | 1.0002 |
| HLHS Anatomy (N=31) | 0.7432 | |||
| Preoperative | 1 (3.2%) | 1 (3.7%) | 0 (0.0%) | |
| Norwood with MBT shunt | 9 (29.0%) | 7 (25.9%) | 2 (50.0%) | |
| Norwood with RVPA shunt | 8 (25.8%) | 8 (29.6%) | 0 (0.0%) | |
| Hybrid procedure | 2 (6.5%) | 2 (7.4%) | 0 (0.0%) | |
| Bi-directional Glenn (Hemi-Fontan) | 6 (19.4%) | 5 (18.5%) | 1 (25.0%) | |
| Fontan | 5 (16.1%) | 4 (14.8%) | 1 (25.0%) | |
| Baseline PCPC score | 0.9971 | |||
| 1 - Normal | 54 (47.8%) | 42 (47.7%) | 12 (48.0%) | |
| 2 - Mild disability | 35 (31.0%) | 28 (31.8%) | 7 (28.0%) | |
| 3 - Moderate disability | 14 (12.4%) | 9 (10.2%) | 5 (20.0%) | |
| 4 - Severe disability | 8 (7.1%) | 7 (8.0%) | 1 (4.0%) | |
| 5 - Coma/vegetative state | 2 (1.8%) | 2 (2.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | |
| Baseline total FSS | 8 [6,10] | 8 [6,12] | 6 [6,8] | 0.0261 |
1
Wilcoxon rank-sum test.
2
Fisher's exact test.
3
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome.