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Table 1 Characteristics and quality assessment of included studies

From: Sutureless technique versus conventional surgery in the primary treatment of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Author

Publication year

Study design

Surgical approach

Patients M/F (sex)

Type of TAPVC (supracardiac/car-diac/infracar-diac/mixed)

Weight (Kg)

Age

Preoperative PVO (n)

Follow-up time

NOS

Gao [8]

2017

Retrospective

ST

CS

56/25

74/24

63/0/14/4

69/0/11/18

4.3(3.3–5.3)b

4.6(3.4–6)

60(25.5–150)d

60(29.3–180)d

24

28

12 ma

12 m

7

(High)

Cui [9]

2016

Retrospective

ST

CS

14

46

NA

3.5 ± 0.8

4.4 ± 1.2

1.8 ± 0.4 m

2.4 ± 2.2 m

NA

46 ma

46 m

6

(High)

Shi [10]

2017

Retrospective

ST

CS

78

690

59/2/13/4

289/278/73/50

NA

323.7 ± 23.8d

202.6 ± 41d

35

157

23.2(1–112)m

23.2(1–112)m

7

(High)

Yamashita [11]

2013

Retrospective

ST

CS

5/2

4/1

4/0/2/1

3/1/1/0

3.4(3–8)

3.6(2.6–4.3)

119(55–425)d

93(42–147)d

6

2

3.9 ± 2.8y

7.2 ± 5.2y

6

(High)

Yanagawa [12]

2011

Retrospective

ST

CS

12/9

20/16

12/4/5/0

19/11/6/0

3.3(1.9–5)

3.5(1.7–11.7)

11(1–128)d

19(1–1157)d

17

18

21.1(0.2–104.8)m

45.8(0–143.1)m

7

(High)

Honjo [13]

2010

Retrospective

ST

CS

2/6

2/12

0/0/0/8

0/0/0/14

3.8 ± 0.6

4.7 ± 3.2

33 ± 26 d

70 ± 81 d

7

8

50 ± 56 m

121 ± 110 m

6

(High)

Lo Rito [14]

2015

Retrospective

ST

CS

37/32

81/45

32/6/16/15

59/33/20/14

3.6(3.1–4)

3.6(3.1–4.6)

18(2–52)d

36(4–85)d

33

44

6.4yc

6.4y

7

(High)

  1. a median value b median value and range c mean value
  2. d days, m months, y years
  3. ST Sutureles technique group, CS Conventional surgery group, NOS Newcastle-Ottawa scale, NA Not available