Table 5.
Relationship between patient characteristics or operative factors and postoperative arrhythmia
| Arrhythmia | p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Present | Absent | ||
| Gender | |||
| Male | 38 (7%) | 547 (93%) | 0.48 |
| Female | 20 (5%) | 351 (95%) | |
| Age | |||
| < 75 years | 43 (6%) | 656 (94%) | 0.85 |
| ≥ 75 years | 15 (6%) | 242 (94%) | |
| Smoking history | |||
| Present | 40 (7%) | 555 (93%) | 0.27 |
| Absent | 18 (5%) | 343 (95%) | |
| Coexistence of interstitial lung disease | |||
| Present | 2 (9%) | 20 (91%) | 0.54 |
| Absent | 56 (6%) | 878 (94%) | |
| Coexistence of diabetes mellitus | |||
| Present | 5 (4%) | 131 (96%) | 0.21 |
| Absent | 53 (7%) | 767 (93%) | |
| Coexistence of malignancy | |||
| Present | 5 (3%) | 156 (97%) | 0.08 |
| Absent | 53 (7%) | 742 (93%) | |
| Coexistence of asthma | |||
| Present | 1 (4%) | 27 (96%) | 0.57 |
| Absent | 57 (6%) | 871 (94%) | |
| Coexistence of arrhythmia or angina pectoris | |||
| Present | 8 (8%) | 90 (92%) | 0.35 |
| Absent | 50 (6%) | 808 (94%) | |
| FEV1% | |||
| < 70% | 26 (8%) | 307 (92%) | 0.09 |
| ≥ 70% | 32 (5%) | 591 (95%) | |
| Lobe | |||
| RU | 21 (7%) | 268 (93%) | 0.30 |
| RM | 3 (5%) | 55 (95%) | |
| RL | 14 (6%) | 217 (94%) | |
| LU | 16 (7%) | 204 (93%) | |
| LL | 4 (2%) | 154 (98%) | |
| Operative approach | |||
| C-VATS + RATS | 13 (4%) | 328 (96%) | 0.02 |
| H-VATS + Open | 45 (7%) | 570 (93%) | |
| Operative procedure | |||
| Lobectomy or more | 57 (8%) | 652 (92%) | < 0.01 |
| Sublobar resection | 1 (0.4%) | 246 (99.6%) | |
FEV1% forced expiratory volume % in one second, RU right upper, RM right middle, RL right lower, LU left upper, LL left lower, C complete, VATS video-assisted thoracic surgery, RATS Robot-assisted Thoracic Surgery, H hybrid