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Table 2 Operative data

From: High thoracic anesthesia offers no major benefit over general anesthesia in on-pump cardiac surgery patients: a retrospective study

	GA, n = 141	TEA, n = 147	P value
Type of surgery
CABG	44 (31.2 %)	23 (15.6 %)	0.002
AVR	22 (15.6 %)	37 (25.2 %)	0.044
MVR	8 (5.7 %)	4 (2.7 %)	0.210
MV repair	4 (2.8 %)	9 (6.1 %)	0.783
Aortic surgery	4 (2.8 %)	13 (8.8 %)	0.031
Combined procedure	50 (35.5 %)	54 (36.7 %)	0.561
Other	9 (6.4 %)	7 (4.9 %)	0.210
Reoperation	3 (2.1 %)	12 (8.2 %)	0.021
Re-exploration for
Bleeding	3 (2.1 %)	2 (1.4 %)	0.618
Tamponade	0	2 (1.4 %)	0.586
Blood loss (mL)	915 ± 340	964 ± 457	0.311
Aortic cross clamp time (min)	75 ± 33	78 ± 41	0.847
CPB time (min)	111 ± 41	118 ± 62	0.961

CABG coronary artery bypass grafting, AVR aortic valve replacement, MVR mitral valve replacement, MV mitral valve, TV tricuspid valve, CPB cardio-pulmonary bypass
Italic values indicate significance value of P < 0.05

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