Ain-Shams Journal of Anesthesiology

Table 2 Postoperative details

From: Myocardial protection with histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate solution in comparison with hypothermic hyperkalemic blood solution in the correction of acyanotic congenital heart diseases

	Group										P*
	HTK					HHB
	Mean	±SD	Median	IQR		Mean	±SD	Median	IQR
ICU LOS (days)	2.80	0.71	3.00	2.00	3.00	3.20	0.76	3.00	3.00	4.00	0.04
Hospital LOS (days)	8.90	1.88	8.50	8.00	10.00	9.67	2.20	9.00	8.00	11.00	0.153

ICU intensive care unit, LOS length of stay, HTK histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate, HHB hypothermic hyperkalemic blood, SD standard deviation, IQR interquartile range; *Student t test
P value < 0.05 was considered significant

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