Clinical Study
Recurrent Pyogenic Cholangitis: Disease Characteristics and Patterns of Recurrence
Table 1
Comparison of demographics and disease characteristics between the operative versus non-operative groups.
| | Operative group () | Non-operative group () | value |
| Mean age | 56.98 | 60.55 | 0.406 (NS) | Gender | | | | Male | 19 | 12 | 0.995 (NS) | Female | 30 | 19 | Race | | | | Chinese | 29 | 19 | 0.425 (NS) | Non-Chinese | 20 | 12 | Malay | 14 | 8 | Vietnamese | 4 | 0 | Burmese | 1 | 1 | Filipino | 1 | 1 | Bangladeshi | 0 | 2 | Comorbidities (DM, HTN, IHD, hyperlipidemia, or CVA) | | | | ≥3 comorbidities | 13 | 7 | 0.691 | <3 comorbidities | 36 | 24 | Bedbound | 0 | 5 | 0.007 (Fisher) | Non-bedbound | 49 | 26 | Biochemical characteristics | | | | Albumin (mean) | 31.90 | 32.48 | 0.646 (NS) | Bilirubin (mean) | 58.71 | 72.37 | 0.296 (NS) | Disease characteristics | | | | Unilateral | 34 | 16 | 0.110 (NS) | Bilateral | 15 | 15 | Simple | 37 | 26 | 0.149 (NS) | Complex | 12 | 5 | Stricture | | | | No | 36 | 22 | 0.807 (NS)
| Yes | 13 | 9 | Ectasia | | | | No | 28 | 22 | 0.213 (NS)
| Yes
| 21 | 9 | Liver atrophy | | | | No | 30 | 27 | 0.021
| Yes | 19 | 4 | Liver abscess | | | | No | 37 | 29 | 0.067 | Yes | 12 | 2 |
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