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Table 1 Perinatal characteristics of newborns with prenatally diagnosed intrathoracic masses categorized by RDS

From: Clinical cardiac assessment in newborns with prenatally diagnosed intrathoracic masses

 

Controls (n = 31)

Without RDS (n = 9)

Mild RDS (n = 6)

Severe RDS (n = 16)

p

laterality R/L

 

4/5

3/3

3/13

0.27

CDH (%)

0

0

50

87.5

< 0.0001

mediastinal shift (%)

 

33.3

50

100

0.00036

polydramnios (%)

0

12.5

0

43.7

0.00035

prenatal steroids (%)

0

11

0

25

0.23

birth gestational age, weeks (range)

38+ 6 (29+ 6–40)

39 (33+ 4–40)

39+ 2 (38+ 4–39+ 5)

38+3 (29+3–39)

0.064

birth weight (g)

3200

3000

3440

2665

0.002

weight centile

44

37

71

16

0.024

SGA (%)

0

11

0

31

0.0066

minimum serum calcium (mmol/L)

2.4

2.45

2.25

2.3

0.38

CK (μkat/L)

3.6

10

9

5.5

0.019

Apgar score 1′/5’

9/10

9/10

8/9

3/7

< 0.0001

days of hospitalization

3

6

20

25

< 0.0001

mortality (%)

0

0

0

37.5

< 0.0001

  1. Abbreviations: RDS respiratory distress syndrome, CDH congenital diaphragmatic hernia, CK creatine kinase, SGA small for gestational age
  2. Significant differences are in bold