Treatment and Patient Reported Outcome in Children with Hirschsprung Disease and Concomitant Congenital Heart Disease
Table 4
Postoperative complications, number (%), and follow-up data, median (range), during the first year after transanal pull-through (TERPT) in children with Hirschsprung disease (HD) with and without congenital heart disease (CHD).
HD without CHD
HD and CHD
value
Anorectal complications ()
40
24 (60%)
13
8 (62%)
Skin excoriation ()
40
22 (55%)
13
8 (62%)
Stricture ()
40
8 (22%)
13
2 (15%)
Counseling sessions during the first 6 months after TERPT ()
40
6 (1–30)
13
5 (2–9)
Counseling sessions during the first year after TERPT ()
40
8 (1–38)
7 (3–14)
Planned counseling ()
40
7 (1–26)
6 (2–11)
Emergency counseling ()
40
0 (0–6)
1 (0–2)
Hospital stay ()
40
1 (0–7)
1 (0–4)
Calibrations first year ()
40
6 (1–23)
6.5 (1–8)
Dilatations first year ()
40
0 (0–12)
0 (0–3)
Patients missing because patient was operated on less than 1 year ago. Fisher’s exact test, two-tailed. Mann–Whitney U test.
