Table 3.
Preoperative pulmonary artery dimensions based on cardiac catheterization study.
| Structure | Group | n | Minimum (mm) |
Maximum (mm) | Mean (mm) |
P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary annulus | PTFEV | 15 | 5 | 12 | 7.6 | 0.301 |
| TAP | 15 | 7 | 12 | 8.5 | ||
| MPA | PTFEV | 15 | 4.5 | 38 | 12.4 | 0.73 |
| TAP | 15 | 8 | 15 | 10.3 | ||
| RPA | PTFEV | 15 | 7 | 38 | 12 | 0.01 |
| TAP | 15 | 5 | 11 | 7.3 | ||
| LPA | PTFEV | 15 | 3.8 | 37 | 11.2 | 0.09 |
| TAP | 15 | 5 | 16.5 | 7.7 |
LPA=left pulmonary artery; MPA=main pulmonary artery; PTFEV=polytetrafluoroethylene valve; RPA=right pulmonary artery; TAP=transannular patch