Table 3. Body weight gain and cardiothoracic ratio change after ventricular septal defect closure.
| Patient No. | Weight before closure (kg/Growth %th) | Z-score | Weight one month after closure (kg/Growth %th) | Z-score | Weight gain (%th) | Cardiacthoracic ratio (Day 1 before closure) | Cardiacthoracic ratio (one month after closure) |
| 1 | 5.1 (0.01) | -3.0 | 6.2 (0.03) | -2.0 | 0.02 | 0.56 | 0.51 |
| 2 | 4.9 (0.01) | -3.0 | 6.4 (1.72) | -2.0 | 1.71 | 0.64 | 0.55 |
| 3 | 4.7 (0.01) | -3.0 | 6.3 (0.11) | -2.5 | 0.1 | 0.54 | 0.51 |
| 4 | 12.8 (10.6) | -1.0 | 17.9 (90.3) | +1.5 | 7.9 | 0.58 | 0.52 |
| 5 | 12.5 (22.1) | +0.5 | 15.2 (70.9) | +1.5 | 48.8 | 0.57 | 0.52 |
| 6 | 11.8 (8.12) | -0.5 | 12.0 (17.7) | +1.5 | 9.6 | 0.57 | 0.54 |
| 7 | 9.5 (1.5) | -2.0 | 10.5 (2.2) | +0 | 19.5 | 0.58 | 0.54 |
| 8 | 14.6 (25.5) | +0 | 15.5 (37.7) | +2.0 | 12.2 | 0.54 | 0.50 |
| 9 | 14.2 (37.0) | +0.5 | 19.8 (97.3) | +0.5 | 60.3 | 0.60 | 0.54 |
| 10 | 14.9 (6.0) | -2.5 | 16.9 (8.1) | +0 | 2.1 | 0.57 | 0.50 |
| 11 | 12.7 (26.6) | -1.0 | 13.1 (27.5) | -0.5 | 0.9 | 0.53 | 0.51 |