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Table 1 Patient demographics

From: First experience with Tolvaptan for the treatment of neonates and infants with capillary leak syndrome after cardiac surgery

Parameter

CLS

P-value

Responder

Non-responder

n

17

8

 

Female

9

4

1.0000

Male

8

4

Gestagional age (SSW)

37 + 4 (31 + 6–40 + 1)

38 + 1(37 + 1–40 + 0)

0.1049

RACHS-1score

3 (2–6)

3 (2–6)

0.2253

Basic Aristotle score

10 (4–15)

7.25 (6.5–14.5)

0.0997

Cardiopulmonary bypass time (min)

219 (0–390)

148 (56–439)

0.1709

Cross clamp time (min)

77 (0–177)

51 (8–173)

0.3508

Subcutaneous-thoracic-ratio (%)

21.0 (14.3–26.5)

19.75 (14.7–27.9)

0.6408

Secondary chest closure after surgery (days)

8 (2–24) (n = 11)

10 (2–17) (n = 4)

0.9878

Start of TLV after surgery (days)

13 (2–44)

15 (7–24)

1.0000

Age when TLV therapy was started (days)

35 (9–228)

37.5 (20–549)

0.3821

Preoperative weight (kg)

3.30 (1.88–4.27)

3.20 (1.93–6.32)

0.7487

Absolute weight before TLV (kg)

4.35 (2.83–5.55)

4.42 (2.61–5.68)

0.8673

Weight above dry weight when TLV was started (%)

131.8 (102.6–202.8)

133.5 (113.5–154.4)

0.8151

Dose of TLV administration (mg/kg)

0.53 (0.15–1.06)

0.49 (0.13–0.95)

0.6204

Period of TLV administration (days)

8 (1–25)

7 (1–47)

0.6391

Urinary output 24 h prior to Tolvaptan administration (ml/kg/h)

4.15 (0.92–9.18)

3.27 (0.54–9.40)

0.4665

Urinary output 24 h after Tolvaptan administration (ml/kg/h)

6.38 (1.20–15.41)

2.21 (0.28–7.15)

0.0039

Days on ICU after TLV administration

15 (3–111)

40.5 (16–139)

0.0155

Death

1

3

0.0808

  1. Frequencies are given for binary data; for quantitative and ordinal data median and range are presented. p < 0.05 has been considered as statistically significant