Predictors of postoperative complication and prolonged intensive care unit stay after complete pericardiectomy in tuberculous constrictive pericarditis

Table 2 Outcomes of study patients stratified by postoperative complication status

Variables	Postoperative complication		P value
Variables	Yes (N = 35)	No (N = 53)	P value
Postoperative ICU stay, days	4.8 ± 2.4	2.1 ± 1.1	< 0.001
Duration of chest drainage, days	17.3 ± 8.3	9.2 ± 2.9	< 0.001
Postoperative hospital stay, days	24.0 ± 10.1	14.1 ± 3.4	< 0.001
Postoperative NYHA functional class			0.085
I	20 (57.1%)	42 (79.2%)
II	14 (40.0%)	10 (18.9%)
III	1 (2.9%)	1 (1.9%)
Mortality within 30 days	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	/
In-hospital deaths	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	/

Values presented as mean ± standard deviation for continuous variables and N (percentage) for categorical variables
ICU intensive care unit, NYHA New York Heart Association

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