Postoperative Complications and Times
The postoperative complications after HTx are shown in Table 2. The early complications were considered during the first 72 hours postoperative and the late after that period. During follow-up, three patients developed arterial hypertension, three diabetes mellitus, and 1 case of ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm in a child treated successfully with an endovascular stents placement (12). Neoplasms were not documented.
Mean postoperative intensive care unit (ICU) stay was 14.2 ± 14.1 days (1 - 84 days), mean postoperative hospital stay was 37.1 ± 26.3 days (1 - 165 days), and mean total hospital stay was 56.1 ± 41.7 days (3 - 178 days). In the evaluation of the postoperative ICU stay, the readmission cases were not considered. The postoperative hospital stay ranged from admission to the ICU until discharge, and the total hospital stays from admission to INCOR until discharge. There were no significant differences between sexes and age groups of postoperative ICU (p = 0.15) (p = 0.53), postoperative hospital (p = 0.61) (p = 0.98), nor total hospital (p = 0.59) (p = 0.54) stays, respectively.