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Table 3 Right ventricular volume and fetal cardiac function parameters: Comparison between the affected fetuses with different degrees of tricuspid regurgitation and gestational age-matched controls

From: Evaluation of right ventricular function in fetal hypoplastic left heart syndrome using spatio-temporal image correlation (STIC)

Group

N

Gestational age (weeks)

RVEDV

(mL)

RVESV

(mL)

RVSV

(mL)

RVCO

(mL/min)

RVEF

(%)

Control

151

30.16 ± 3.85

3.54 ± 1.50

1.33 ± 0.56

2.21 ± 0.97

321.89 ± 142.02

62.31 ± 4.15

HLHS-mild TR

29

29.43 ± 3.64

4.17 ± 1.43*

1.62 ± 0.67*

2.55 ± 0.81*

369.35 ± 118.41*

61.92 ± 4.78

HLHS-severe TR

10

28.61 ± 2.60

4.69 ± 1.59*# (P = 0.008)

2.71 ± 0.99*##

1.98 ± 0.66# (P = 0.003)

298.09 ± 101.94# (P = 0.014)

42.56 ± 4.93*##

  1. Abbreviations: HLHS hypoplastic left heart syndrome, TR tricuspid regurgitation, RVEDV right ventricular end-diastolic volume; RVESV right ventricular end-systolic volume, RVSV right ventricular stroke volume, RVCO right ventricular cardiac output, RVEF right ventricular ejection fraction
  2. * P < 0.001 vs. control group, after adjusting for gestational age; # P < 0.05, ## P < 0.001 vs. HLHS-mild TR, after adjusting for gestational age