Pre- and Postoperative Vomiting in Children Undergoing Video-Assisted Gastrostomy Tube Placement

Table 2

The diagnosis of the included 180 patients and their vomiting frequency pre- and postoperatively at study endpoint at 6 months. The children had comorbidity in the form of epilepsy in 27 (17%), ventricular-peritoneal shunt in 9 patients (5%), and mitochondrial disease in 6 patients (4%).

Diagnosis	(%)	Vomiting preoperatively; (%)	Vomiting postoperatively; (%)	value*
Cerebral pares	61 (34)	12 (24)	14 (35)	0,8254
Cardiac malformation	30 (17)	11 (22)	7 (18)	0,3985
Metabolic disease	37 (21)	10 (20)	5 (13)	0,2470
GI malformations	7 (4)	2 (4)	1 (3)	1
Malignancy	11 (6)	2 (4)	2 (5)	1
Respiratory insufficiency	15 (8)	7 (14)	6 (15)	1
Syndrome	19 (10)	7 (14)	5 (13)	0,7290
Sum	180 (100)	51 (100)	40 (100)	0,2253
value**		= 0,0152	= 0,0049

Statistical methods:
*Fisher’s exact probability test, two tailed,
**Mann-Whitney test.