Patient Characteristics in Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn

Table 3

Patient characteristics of surviving patients.

Gestational Age (GA)	<37 weeks	≥37 weeks	P-value
Total	27	65
Female	6	29	.04
Inhaled NO	18	44
Severity PPHN
Severe	17	31
Severe (iNO)	11	21
Mild-moderate	10	34
Mild-moderate (iNO)	7	23
Severity (OI)
Mild <15		13
Moderate 15–25		17
Severe 25–40		18
Very severe >40		14∗
Pathophysiology
Maldevelop/maladap	22	60
Maldevelop/maladap + iNO	15	42
Underdevelopment	5	5
Underdevelopment + iNO	3	2
Comorbidity (n/%)
CHD (TGA)	1	14	.03
Asphyxia	2	10
Lunghypoplasia nos	4	0	.001
Lunghypoplasia (neuromuscular)	0	0
Lunghypoplasia (omphalocele)	0	0
Lunghypoplasia/CDH	0	5
Lunghypoplasia/cystic kidneys	1	0
Infection	5	11
Emphysema	1	0
Hydrops fetalis (unknown origin)	0	0

OI = oxygen index, Maldevelop/maladap = maladevelopment/maladptation, CHD = congenital heart disease.